XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: peter@sagatafl.invalid   
      
   Dan Goodman wrote:   
   > emjones@charter.net wrote:   
   >>I've been trying to think of the name/author of a short story about an   
   >>infant born in a cave on a strange planet where time is wildly sped   
   >>up. In the first pages he grows into an adult and sees a spaceship   
   >>wrecked some distance away. He makes a dash for the ship and finds he   
   >>is safe inside it and that some radiation makes people age at   
   >>lightning speed outside.   
   >>   
   >>Okay, the story is better than that...my life seems to be speeding up   
   >>recently too....   
   >   
   > Best newsgroup for this kind of question is rec.arts.sf.written.  I've   
   > crossposted to there, and added "YASID" (Yet Another Story ID) to the   
   > subject line.   
   >   
   > Now, a few questions:  When did you read the story?  (That is, what   
   > range of years.  Amazing how many people say how old they were when   
   > they read a story, and don't bother to mention whether that was last   
   > year or ninety years ago.)   Do you remember any names of people,   
   > places, etc.?   
   > Are there any details you considered too unimportant to mentions?  If   
   > so, mention them; the unlikeliest things will spark someone's memory.   
      
   Since this story is so easy to ID, we don't actually need all that   
   information, although it is good of you to teach him about it, Dan, so   
   that next time when he might be asking for a difficult-to-ID story,   
   he'll dump a truckload of details on us.   
      
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