Dayworld
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In a distant future, humanity addresses overpopulation by allowing individuals to live one day a week, while the other six days they are in suspended animation.
Dompel u onder in een dystopische toekomstvisie waarin elk individu slechts één dag per week leeft en de rest van de tijd in schijndode toestand doorbrengt. Volg de reis van een man die dit systeem doorbreekt, meer dan één dag leeft en verontrustende waarheden over zijn eigen geest ontdekt. Deze serie duikt in thema's als identiteit, controle en overleving binnen een streng gestructureerde samenleving, waarbij de grenzen tussen realiteit en illusie vervagen.
In a distant future, humanity addresses overpopulation by allowing individuals to live one day a week, while the other six days they are in suspended animation.
Dayworld's a Philip José Farmer trilogy set in a dystopian future in which people live only a day a week. The other days they're stoned, a suspended animation. It focuses on Jeff Caird, a daybreaker: someone who lives more than a day a week. As the series progresses, he seems to suffer Dissociative Identity Disorder. The three parts are Dayworld ('85), Dayworld Rebel ('87), Dayworld Breakup ('90). Caird's a citizen of Tuesday-World New Era 1330. The book starts on D5-W1 (Day-5, Week-1) in the 2nd Month of NE1330. (Each day of the week is the same day number, i.e. Sun-Sat will still be D5-W1). The book covers a week: Tuesday-World D5-W1 to Tuesday-World D6-W1. He's an 'organic' (police officer) by profession. Each day of the week organics have different outfits. Each day of the week has a different fashion trend, tv shows, news etc, most only knowing about each in their own day. He's also an immer, a group acting beneath governmental radar. Their goal's to subtly improve government. There are immers in almost every social sector in each day of the week. He's special in that he's a daybreaker as sanctioned by the immers, used to pass messages from day to day. As a daybreaker, he's mentally created a different identity for himself for each day of the week, different jobs, friends & wives included.