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"Day Million"
by Frederik Pohl

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Publishing Data

Originally published in February 1966 in Rogue
Collected in The Norton Book of Science Fiction

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Preview
A narrator tells a story about a boy and a girl and their love.
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Note the clever use of cliches in the story.
What beliefs, expectations, reactions, and even physical characteristics are ascribed to "you, the reader"?
Describe Dora. How do you react to her? What is she a parody of?
Describe Don. How is he a parody of the classic space hero?
How does this story extrapolate into the future? Can you recognize any current trends in exaggerated or extended form in this account of Day Million?
What does the story say about the biological and cultural bases of gender?
 
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