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:

    “Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
    For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
    For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory:”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm LXXXIV (l. LXXXIV, 9–11)

    “Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer.”
    —Stanley Rudin. The New York Times (August 22, 1963)