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Probably not the story in question, but Ted Chiang has a similar one called "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" in Exhalation.
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Chill la Chill posted:Trying to remember the name of a short story that was about a man who was running through an idyllic 1950s neighborhood but everything was frozen in time, or ghostly, or there were no people there and just memories. I think there was also a short film made from the short story. They were running through the neighborhood, I think because they wanted to get back home or wanted to reconnect with their family, but lost them as time went on. John Cheever's "The Swimmer" loosely fits this. The dude is getting home by swimming in all of the pools in infinite suburbia as if they're one long river, having drinks with people as he goes, but gothic weirdness happens and things start to become less idyllic and when he gets home his house is long abandoned. There is a film but I haven't seen it
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Chill la Chill posted:Thanks a lot! It was definitely "The Swimmer" but "The Day Time Stopped Moving" sounds great and I'll give it a read too. 
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Dee-ann Du-anny
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VostokProgram posted:How do you look up a book when you definitely know the title, but not the author, and Google isn't helping? try https://www.worldcat.org/
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calandryll posted:Yeah the lectures sound interesting. I know I've read one version of Arthur that was oddly enough by John Steinbeck. It has the more modern verbiage but it's been 30 years since I read it. The Steinbeck one is more or less a modern paraphrase of Malory - just a "let me repackage these stories I love so much so kids these days can read them too" thing.
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BattyKiara posted:Short story about a bIoke who is convinced there is secret society setting up in his neighbourhood, Iots of shenanigans as he tries a bunch of very inept spying on supposed secret society happens, with humorous resuIts! Oh I think I've read this. Is this a Roald Dahl story?
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Data Graham posted:I think that was called the Anarchist Cookbook the tennis ball in the anarchist's cookbook involved strike-anywhere match heads.
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Captain_Indigo posted:2004-2010 This is just a shot from left field but some of this sounds like William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy - Pattern Recognition/Spook Country/Zero History, maybe if you read it and got some wires crossed with another book (which is something I've done more than once).
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WHY BONER NOW posted:A book in the 90s about a group of girls, I think junior high age. I want to say it had Blubber vibes, maybe. I think there was a girl they bullied that eventually made friends with them? Only things I remember are I can confirm I've read this too but can't tell you any more about it, but it exists.
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