Day Million

Day Million (ISBN 0-330-23606-7) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Frederik Pohl, published in June 1970. It contains stories:

  • "Day Million" (1966)
  • "The Deadly Mission of P. Snodgrass" (1962)
  • "The Day the Martians Came" (1967)
  • "Schematic Man" (1968)
  • "Small Lords" (1956)
  • "Making Love" (1966)
  • "Way Up Yonder" (1959)
  • "Speed Trap" (1967)
  • "It's a Young World" (1941)
  • "Under Two Moons" (1965)

The title story, Day Million, details the romantic affair between two people, referred to as Don and Dora (shortened versions of the names of both) in the millionth day CE, which falls late in the year 2737, although the author alternately describes it as being about a thousand years in the future. The story is told through differences with our 'primitive' civilization and the civilization humans have established by this time.


Famous quotes containing the words day and/or million:

    “And then—a Day as huge
    As Yesterdays in pairs,
    Unrolled its horror in my face—
    Until it blocked my eyes—”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)