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''[[The Man Who Folded Himself]]'' is a 1973 science fiction novel by [[David Gerrold]] that deals with time travel. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1974. Pretty clearly Gerrold's attempt at writing the end-all and be-all time-travel looping novel, it apparently had another [[Screw Yourself|f-word]] in its title, but the publisher wouldn't go for it.
The story follows Daniel (in 1975), a college student, whose uncle increases his allowance (to help with living expenses) if he promises to keep a journal. After his uncle dies, Daniel inherits a "Timebelt" that allows him to travel in time so he goes into the future, meets his future self and makes a large winning on the horse races. Soon after he realises he has to accompany his younger self to the previous day at the horse races and make the same results.
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* [[The Fifties]]: Daniel goes back to live through this entire era a few times, as he feels it's the best and most hopeful point in American history.
* [[Future Me Scares Me]]: Those hollow-eyed old guys having orgies at their shared mansion creep Daniel out.
* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: Daniel unintentionally does this to himself; it takes a good chunk of the novel before he realizes he's mostly been reliving the same day over and over again.
* [[Population Control]]: Daniel speculates at one point that the Timebelt might have been originally invented as a humane way to dispose of excess humanity, as anyone who uses it to travel never reappears in their 'original' timeline but in a splinter universe. Thus thrill-seekers, sociopaths, or criminals [[All the Myriad Ways|become somebody else's problem]].
* [[Screw Yourself]]: A ''lot''.
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