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canetoad

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15. Ira Levin

Reply to clevergrrrl (Original post)

Fri Oct 10, 2025, 06:32 PM

Friday

Author of Rosemary's Baby wrote a sci-fi novel first published in 1970, called "This Perfect Day", describing a world run by a central computer that managed every, I mean EVERY aspect of the population's lives. The 'programmers' lived in luxurious isolation, exchanging their bodies every so often for a new, healthy one.

I was a teen when I first read it. It seemed unlikely. What would I know?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Perfect_Day

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