Timeline for A "Great Classic", but also very confusing, SF novel about dreams within dreams within dreams (but very different from the movie “Inception”)
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| yesterday | comment | added | PM 2Ring | @Alfred And it's a good recommendation for those who like this genre of "dream within a dream" stories. ;) IMHO, a significant portion of the value of story ID questions is that they help future readers find stories that are related in some way to the target story. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Alfred | @PM2Ring As a matter of fact, it is not a very good match to what I remember now. But it was a pretty good match to the description I gave on my very vague recollections when I wrote my question ! | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Alfred | @Eli One way for you to get a lot of reputation fast would be to try and answer questions with "bounties with no deadline". I have myself seven questions listed there, with bounties ranging from 100 to 1000 reps. Do try your chance there : scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12517/… | |
| yesterday | comment | added | PM 2Ring | I was about to mention in a comment that The Futurological Congress is in this genre, before I saw this answer. I don't think it's a close match, though. But I'm a bit vague on the details: I read it last century, and the hallucinatory nature of the plot makes it even harder. ;) I enjoyed it, even though it's a little darker and less humorous than my favourite Lem works. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Alfred | @LogicDictates I still find absurd that Mohirl's answer containing details that were in contradiction with what I wrote (multiple personalities are quite different from dreams/hallucinations) and more than 7 years off, got 5 ups and 0 downs, while Eli's answer, with a date compatible with my claim, no details but suggesting a book without any contradiction with what I wrote, got only 3 ups and 1 down. I almost downvoted Mohirl's answer. I did not because the late date made me realise that my book was already a "Great Classic" when I read it. An incidental good point for a poor match. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Alfred | @FuzzyBoots Maybe we should indeed move this to chat (in Meta ?). But though I totally agree with you that upvoting vs not upvoting Eli's answer is subjective (I tend to be generous, but I perfectly understand others be less generous) I stand on my position that there was absolutely no objective reason to downvote it as a first question by a newbie. | |
| yesterday | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | :) Seems more like a meta discussion, but general site policy is that upvotes and downvotes are all subjective. People vote based on what they think are "good" or "bad" answers. This one does at least mention both the title and the author (as well as an additional title). | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Alfred | @LogicDictates I never thought you were the downvoter ! But how could anyone know it was a poor match ? It did not contradict anything I wrote, and the timing was OK contrary to Mohiri's answer which was not downvoted. I did not accept it because, having read a plot summary, I saw points that did not ring any bell. And that in itself meant nothing, since I did say I did not remember much. But knowing myself, I estimated that I would have remembered them. But one had to be in my head do make this decision ! The "downvoter" was not there ! | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Dan Efran | Upvoting because it’s a solid guess based on the question (though I agree more detail is needed for a really helpful answer) | |
| yesterday | comment | added | LogicDictates | @Alfred - It seems harsh to downvote a first answer that might've been correct, solely on the basis of it lacking detail. It's not my policy to do that and I haven't voted on this answer one way or the other. That said, I might have downvoted it if I had reason to believe it was a poor match. Alternately, I might have upvoted it if I had reason to believe it was a good match. Perhaps whoever downvoted it knew it was likely incorrect and did so for that reason, which I would find understandable. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Alfred | @LogicDictates Do you agree with me? Isn't it unfair to downvote a first answer for not providing the details one expects from a seasoned user ? | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Alfred | I have upvoted your answer, but another user has downvoted it. This is quite unfair. In principle, LogicDictates is right. It is your role, when giving an answer, to justify it by arguments, either quotes or a few details from the story you suggest. Repeatedly giving just a title and the author would attract downvotes. But your are new to the site, this is your first answer. You did not have time to get used to our unwritten rules. Downvoting you so early is, in my opinion, a much worse violation of these rules than only mentioning title and author on a first answer. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Alfred | One way for you to get a lot of reputation fast would be to try and answer questions with "bounties with no deadline". I have myself six questions listed there, with bounties ranging from 200 to 1000 reps. Do try your chance there : scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12517/… | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Alfred | I checked the plot summary on wikipedia. There are indeed a common point, the repeated hallucinations. Also the publication date fits. But there are too many points that do not ring any bell in my memory. All this violence, bombs, shooting. In particular brain transplants, I would have remembered that. So I don't think it is my sook, sorry. Thanks anyway and welcome to this great forum. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | LogicDictates | You could improve this answer by editing to specify how this novel matches the one described by the OP. | |
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| S 2 days ago | history | answered | Eli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |