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Author: Wyman Guin
Year: 1951
Type: SHORTFICTION
Storylen: novella
Language: English
ISFDB Record Number: 56208
Synopsis: A story about a world where everyone is schizophrenic. Everyone has a side personality. Everyone is using compulsory drugs to separate and control the personalities. Apparently going to this kind of lifestyle prevents all wars and violence. The two personalities everyone has are called hypoalter and hyperalter and the prevalent personality is switched every five days. Both personalities of the protagonist are married to the same woman (to her separate personalities), which in itself is uncommon and is considered to be slightly perverted. And what is really kinky is that the hyperalter of the personality has an affair with the wife of the hypoalter. That kind of perversion can't end well.
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Magazine Appearances:
- Oltre la follia (Part 1 of 2) [Italian] (1953) - Wyman Guin
- Oltre la follia (Part 2 of 2) [Italian] (1953) - Wyman Guin
Publications:
- Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1951, (Aug 1951, ed. H. L. Gold, publ. World Editions, Inc., $0.35, 164pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Emsh - [VERIFIED]
- Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction, (1952, ed. H. L. Gold, publ. Crown Publishers, x+566pp, hc, anth) - [VERIFIED]
- I Romanzi di Urania #29, (Dec 1953, ed. Giorgio Monicelli, publ. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, #29, 150 Lit, 160pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Curt Caesar - [VERIFIED]
- I Romanzi di Urania #30, (Dec 1953, ed. Giorgio Monicelli, publ. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, #30, 150 Lit, 160pp, Digest, magazine) Cover: Curt Caesar - [VERIFIED]
- Spectrum II, (1962, ed. Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, publ. Gollancz, 18/-, 271pp, hc, anth)
- Spectrum II, (1963, ed. Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, publ. Harcourt, Brace & World, $4.50, 271pp, hc, anth)
- Spectrum II, (1963, ed. Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, publ. Doubleday Canada, $3.75, hc, anth)
- Spectrum II, (Dec 1963, ed. Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, publ. The Science Fiction Book Club (UK), 11/6, 271pp, hc, anth)
- Spectrum 2, (1964, ed. Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, publ. Pan Books, #M75, 5/-, 286pp, pb, anth)
- Spectrum II, (Jul 1964, ed. Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, publ. Berkley Medallion, #F950, $0.50, 256pp, pb, anth) - [VERIFIED]
- Spectrum II, (May 1967, ed. Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, publ. Berkley Medallion, #X1451, $0.60, 256pp, pb, anth) Cover: Paul Lehr - [VERIFIED]
- Living Way Out, (Aug 1967, Wyman Guin, publ. Avon, #S298, $0.60, 208pp, pb, coll) Cover: Ronald Walosky - [VERIFIED]
- Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, (Jul 1970, ed. Robert Silverberg, publ. Ballantine, 0-345-01960-1, $0.95, viii+373pp, pb, anth) Cover: Donna Violetti - [VERIFIED]
- Spectrum II, (1971, ed. Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, publ. Pan Books, 0-330-02712-3, £0.30, 286pp, pb, anth) - [VERIFIED]
- Beyond Bedlam, (1973, Wyman Guin, publ. Sphere, 0-7221-4141-6, £0.40, 206pp, pb, coll) Cover: Jim Burns - [VERIFIED]
- The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels, (Nov 1980, ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Priam Books / Arbor House, 0-87795-295-7, $9.95, x+768pp, tp, anth)
- The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels, (Dec 1980, ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Arbor House, 0-87795-295-7, $19.95, x+768pp, hc, anth) Cover: Antler & Baldwin, Inc. - [VERIFIED]
- The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels, (May 1981, ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Arbor House / SFBC, #5754, $6.98, 753pp, hc, anth) Cover: Antler & Baldwin, Inc. - [VERIFIED]
- Worlds Imagined, (Apr 1989, ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Avenel Books, 0-517-68029-7, $8.98, x+704pp, hc, anth) - [VERIFIED]