HELP! I'm looking for a short story

[thepaladin]

I can't find it...this may take a while. Apparently our public library doesn't have a single one of the nearly 200 books (counting collections) Silverberg published. I don't own it so, the search will go on unless someone can run it down.

But it was a starship I'm almost sure, so even the Silverberg thing may be wishful thinking on my part...frustration at not being able to find it. It's just that I sort of thought earlier it might be Silverberg.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

No, I meant it was a collection edited by Silverberg, the author is Terry Carr. The more I think of it though, I suspect it is another story if you're certain of the spaceship setting. In that case I feel it may be in one of these two collections:

Adventures in Time and Space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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(Either Vol. 1 or 2 of the Hall Of Fame).

I know that I read this story during the phase when I read these excellent anthologies, as an effort to familiarise myself with SF short story classics, so there is a good chance it is one of these.

 

[Starman]

Starman, this is driving me crazy can you remember anything else for sure? I remember that they 2 characters continued to exchange notes... was it a colony ship of some kind? I can't place the type of story it was other than the love story nor can I recall how it ended. I've got feelers out elsewhere and am asking around. Can you dredge anything else back up.... It's putting me under.

Nope, sorry. I was rather young at the time.

The only thing I remember is that near the end, the woman writes him a note saying, "I think I love you" - which may or may not be the last message that passed between them.

I put this message on another board, and someone suggested the author "James Tiptree". Apparently this is the kind of story that she would have written.

 

[Starman]

Can you remember when you read it?

I have a vague recollection of something similar but it would have been over 20 years ago.

It was in 1997. I read it in the school library - it was a tiny, battered old book.

Thanks for the lead, knivesout

 

[thepaladin]

Thanks I found a listing for the collection but can't find a good synopsis of the story to see if it's the one I remember. I'll try to run the book down to see. i guess it could be, but I seem to remember the starship motif. Could just be memory trick i suppose happens when you get "older".

 

[Daisy-Boo]

I spent the last two hours at work searching the net for this story. (Don't tell my bosses.)

So far...nothing, I'm afraid.

 

[thepaladin]

I know. I've done that and asked about it in a couple of other places...I got another "sounds good let me know if you find it answer" but nothing definitive. I don't know if Knivesout has hit it or not. I can't find the book. It can be ordered used I think, but I'd like to be sure of the story first. The thing that's really killing me is I remember an online discussion of this story sometime in the past...but I can't place when.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I did search James Tiptree, Jr. in my hours of looking, but didn't find any leads there either. That doesn't mean it wasn't hers, just that I didn't get anything that led me to any specific story.

You know, if this bunch can't find it, I think it must just be a mass hallucination.

 

[ghost8772]

Flying blind on this one, but looked up tiptree found a bibliography of her works, only have title to go on for a lot of them, but "Time-share Angel" short story's title sounds like it could fit the criteria, its in a compilation titled "Out of the Everywhere, and Other Extraordinary Visions" could be off, but some of the stories that I have seen a synopsis for looked intriguing enough to try and hunt down a copy or three of.

 

[bunnypeaches]

This does sound like a good story, I need to keep an eye out for it.

 

[dask]

Count me in. This sounds like a great story. Sort of reminds me of that Jack Finney story where someone in present day sends letters back to a girl in the Civil War era through a kind of enchanted post office.

 

[Starman]

Bumping this. Sorry people.

 

[daisybee]

This sounds like the Lake House in space.

I'll have a look about for you. It does sound intriguing.

 

[thepaladin]

I've kept my eyes open since this request and put out word on a couple of other forums. I remember this story to, but can't place it either. Good luck.

 

[Starman]

bump for luck

 

[wizardrivebise]

I'm intrigued too, *bump. I did hear of something similar in concept...hope you guys find it! By the way, am searching for a book myself (in the thread created by me)

 

[Starman]

bump after a year

 

[Starman]

Bumpin' in the rain