Talk:The Man Who Folded Himself

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Vague?

I'm sorry, but this reads too much like the back cover of a book. I barely tells me anything! ✏✎✍✌✉✈✇✆✃✄Ⓠ‽ (talk) 12:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i concur there has to be a better way to explain Killemall22 (talk) 14:21, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with both of the above, and having just finished reading it I feel the right thing to do is to edit the page to improve the plot summary, at least. I'll have to do this without giving too much away, so I understand if my edit is reverted. Txsling (talk) 15:41, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Er why? Wikipedia has spoilers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.246.166.109 (talk) 16:58, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All you Zombies

Going by the plot summary, the story is just a copy of Heinlein's "All you Zombies" Why was it nominated for those awards? CharlesTheBold (talk) 03:35, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's got kind of a mood to it. Also, the folding is much more extreme (he plays cards with himselve(s). It's like Zombies or Bootstraps sure, but SF has only so many basic ideas. Stories differ more for the treatment and such, not the device. Why don't you read it? And anyhow, it's not about if it was better than RAH Golden Age, but about how it compared to the other 1972 books.69.255.27.249 (talk) 03:41, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2003 edition .... and another MYSTERY edition!

The article mentions a 2003 edition, but I have a copy from the '90s that is also not the 1973 edition (it mentions Apple and Star Wars). It doesn't have a separate copyright date though, so I don't know when this rewrite originally occurred. Thmazing (talk) 04:14, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Folded

fold has another meaning:

* a group or community, especially when perceived as having shared aims and values.

and as a suffix yet another:

suffix: -fold

   1.
   (forming adjectives and adverbs from cardinal numbers) in an amount multiplied by.
   "threefold"
   2.
   (forming adjectives and adverbs from cardinal numbers) consisting of so many parts or facets.
   "twofold"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2406:E000:685E:1801:CDF2:E560:D84D:9ACB (talk) 12:20, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]