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What's that book or story you vaguely remember reading but forgot the title of and can't find it anywhere anymore? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Karl@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I had begun reading a short story or a novel on gutenberg.org couple of years ago (Those who don't know, it's a site where you can find all kinds of public domain ebooks.) The story was set in a distant future where people time travel to various time periods of the past and live there and thereby drain resources of the past. There was some kind of structure called time dome or smth like that. It read from the pov of a guy called Ted, Tom or Taylor. I had to uninstall my browser and therefore lose all data. Tried to find it, but couldn't. It was interesting enough for me to remember even today.

Edit: I can't believe this myself, but I somehow found it and it was actually reaalllyy easy. Took me like 30 seconds. I just went to Project Gutenberg, opened the books about time travel section, scrolled down and down and there it was... Tyrants of Time by Milton Lesser. Even though I read it in Gutenberg.org, not once did I look up in Gutenberg itself. I made social media posts, googled it, asked chatgpt and all that. I have no idea why I didn't look it up in Gutenberg itself. And the structure I called 'Time Dome' was actually Eradrome, it's a place that facilitates time travel. And the protagonist is actually Tedor Barwan. Damn, I'm really stupid!!

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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

A short-story compilation, horror book that had a blue cover with the names of all the authors down one side of the cover.

The well-written, but particularly disturbing story was about a girl street waif, who had been found by a man on his doorstep. She had an injury and he nursed her back to health(then the rest of the story happened, which contains spoilers). Very descriptive medical assistance passages.

I kind of think Dread by Clive Barker may have been one of the other stories included, but that is possibly misremembered.

Read circa 1994.

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The collection sounds like "The Dark Descent" but I'm not familiar with the waif story.

[–] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Great book

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Hey thanks :v)

This looks and sounds like it could be the one.

It might have been 1997+ when I read it.

Trying to find the author-story list now.

Edit: May not be the same book, not sure yet without reading each story. May have been more blue background on the cover, and seemed more 'pulp unknowns' rather than 'seminal horror anthology' level. Could have remembered Dread from Books of Blood.