SF story: man waking up in woman's body.

June 11, 2007 11:05 AM

Looking for fascinating SF story, pretty old, 40's or 50's perhaps. Plot is of a man, while dreaming, waking up in a catatonic and fat woman's body, with a 12 hours time difference. Gradually he achieves muscle control over the woman's body, get's her/him to exercise and eventually leave the instution where she spent many years.

Eventually he makes love with himself, sounds odd, but certainly the detail that many people would remember. In my recollection the story was called 'Past Time Perfect', but can't find it anywhere.

posted by Eltulipan to writing & language (3 comments total)

First Person Plural - F.M. Busby?

It's a short story in Universe 10 - edited by Terry Carr.

"FIRST PERSON PLURAL - F.M. Busby From Universe 10, edited by Terry Carr. A man wakes up in a woman's body in a mental hospital. The difference here is that he alternately inhabits her body and his original one ON THE SAME DAY. He experiences a day first in her body then in his. (Or vice versa, I'm not sure)."

$3 on Ebay.
posted by cashman at 12:21 PM on June 11, 2007

Was that it ?
posted by cashman at 2:39 PM on June 12, 2007

Yeah, I think so. First Person Plural and Past Time Perfect have the same language feeling, don't they? I remembered the situation that they, as ther different selves, were able to communicate, but this does the trick too. I ordered Universe 10.
Thanks
posted by Eltulipan at 2:40 PM on June 17, 2007