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| Original Title: | Dayworld |
| ISBN: | 0441140017 (ISBN13: 9780441140015) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dayworld #1 |
| Characters: | Jeff Caird |
Philip José Farmer
Paperback | Pages: 258 pages Rating: 3.64 | 1489 Users | 93 Reviews
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| Title | : | Dayworld (Dayworld #1) |
| Author | : | Philip José Farmer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 258 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 1986 by Ace Books (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Dystopia |
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Dayworld leads a sf trilogy by Philip José Farmer set in a dystopian future in which an overpopulated world allocates people only one day a week. The other six days they're in suspended animation. The focus is on Jeff Caird, a daybreaker living more than a day a week. He's not like most daybreakers. He belongs to the radical Immer group working to create a better government. Not all Immers are daybreakers, but send information from one day to the next they've daybreakers like Jeff. Immer daybreakers assume seven different personalities & jobs, slipping from culture to culture in seven different worlds. While Jeff & the other six go day to day, they run into problems while working as Immer daybreakers. They must cover their tracks while trying to keep up with seven different lives, families & jobs. It could drive a man crazy. It does & the Immers must dispose of Jeff to keep the rest safe. Jeff, wanting to live, tries to escape, but they have undercover Immers in every job & government level. Jeff is caught & put in an asylum, classified with multiple personality disorder. If considered incurable he'll be killed. But Jeff has an escape plan.The sequels are Dayworld Rebel, '87 & Dayworld Breakup, '90.
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It's a tremendously inventive concept, though it's developed in a pretty lightweight way. The plot is a little silly (I kept expecting it to develop into something more, but it didn't). I found the world-building amusing if underdone. The most detail seemed to be devoted to outlining the various hot wives one would have in each of the different worlds. I would have liked more explanation and logic, but as is, it was a pretty fun read and I'll probably try to get the rest of the trilogy.An interesting premise that I'm not sure if Farmer actually succeeds at. In the Dystopian Future (aren't they all?) overpopulation is abetted by allowing humans to "live" for only a single weekday at a time, occupying the planet in shifts. While this seems to work, naturally, there's a group that's a little grumpypants about the whole arrangement, and have figured out a way to live longer/"daybreak" (live for more than one day of the week at a time.) This leads to trouble, a man with multiple
"Dayworld" is a classic novel about overpopulation in which the human overflow is dealt with in a unique manner: every person is assigned one day of the week in which to live, and when that day is done, they retreat into a pod which will keep them in suspended animation for the next six days. No one is even aware of the passage of time. Expect the main character, who is not only immortal but breaking "temporal law" by living every single day of the week, though on every day he has a unique life
After Asimov, in my childhood, in my teens it was Heilein, Philip José Farmer and (I confess) Hubbard, that completed my initiation into sci-fi. Farmer gave me what Ursula K. Le Guin would confirm. That clarity of the premise. The metaphorical power, as eloquent as an essay."A society only allows his citizens to live one day a week." The fact that it happens in a sci-fi scenario is not relevant. What matters are the consequences tested, that become referential to the real world. To my society.
Have been reading a lot of Farmer lately. First the Tiers series and now the Dayworld trilogy. Have loved Farmers books for years and plan on reading through his books in the coming years.
This is one of the coolest science fiction premises I've ever encountered. The world is so overpopulated that society comes up with a bizarre way of handling this, not through population control but through suspended animation.Every person on the earth is allotted one day out of every seven to live out his life normally. The other six days, the person is frozen in suspended animation, completely inert, consuming no resources whatsoever.This effectively reduces the entire population to 1/7th of
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