The Man Who Folded Himself (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Jerrold David Friedman
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—time travel
- Time of Work: From prehistory to the far future
- Setting: Primarily Earth, with references to travel in outer space
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Space flight or travel, Time travel, Earth, Parallel universes or alternate dimensions, Prehistoric times
- Locales: Space, Earth
The Plot
A young man named Daniel Jamieson Eakins inherits a time traveling belt device from his “Uncle Jim.” He decides to go one day into the future, get that day’s newspaper, and then bounce back to the present and go to the races. The newspaper will allow him to place winning bets on horses. When he does so, he encounters his future “self,” who proposes that they go together to the races. They do so and win a large sum of money, then go out to celebrate afterward. Daniel becomes his future self, waiting for his past self to pop into the future. He repeats the...
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