I am looking for the name and author of a science fiction story (or TV show) about time being quantized, like box cars – the story is that a couple wakes up “in-between the box cars” and discovers a crew that is re-building the entire universe. This happens every moment. The punch line is that when you misplace something like your keys and later find them, in plain sight, it is because the “boxcar” crew made a mistake and left them out one moment and put them back in the next. Thanks in advance for any help.
2007-06-27 05:59:21 · 2 answers · asked by Bob D 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The story is "Yesterday was Monday" by Theodore Sturgeon. It was adapted for television by the 1980's version of The Twilight Zone.
2007-06-27 14:02:28 · answer #1 · answered by abba-dingo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds a little like Stephen King's "The Langolier's" (with the guy who played Balki on "Perfect Strangers" in the TV version), which involved an entire airplane and crew. "The Matrix" played with a similar idea of items popping in location being a sign of a bad reproduction.
2007-06-27 14:43:38 · answer #2 · answered by xwdguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋