h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This answer sent me literally scurrying to a cupboard full of books I have cos it rang a bell and lo! I have found a short story - "The Nostalgia Gene" by Roy Hutchins - a short story about a group of people who find they prefer the idea of life in "the old days" and invent a way of going back in time to live that. In the "old days" there is equally a group of people who are nostalgic - who have the gene for preferring life in the old days, and they use the technology to go back further - to cut a short story short, everyone who is alive is descended from a group of nostalgic time travellers, therefore we all have the nostalgia gene and prefer life in the past.

Well done Mal ... I racked my brains, and never thought of that one!

MMF

for too!

The title was a cleverly disguised hint - *pine* box, geddit?

Points, before I forget again...

thranjax +6 for "Planets" etc QI
Taff -5 for "Quackery"
Feisor +1 for the pre/post 1910 demarcation
Mazin +6 QI for "Old Smokey" (What a name!)
Mazin -5 for "Plague"
McKay +1 for "misdiagnosis"
Mini +3 for "heartbreak"
thranjax +6 for nostalgia gene QI

Totals:

Thranjax +12
Taff -5
Feisor +1
Mazin Mad Fiddler +1
McKay +1
Minichessemouse +3

I was to get +1!



*And it appears it was Old Sparkey, just to show I didn't cheat!*http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7814

MMF

I did look it up to be sure.

Thanks. And you were good to your word with only one . .

Here's to the next one!



MMF

You only tripped one, despite taking the Taff approach of listing everything you could think of at random.