Dayworld Breakup (1990) 365 pages by Philip Jose FarmerThis book started with a synopsis by Caird's daughter of the first two volumes of the Dayworld trilogy. So I was thinking, "OK, sometime during this book he'll have a daughter, or we'll learn where she came from." About three quarters the way through Caird meets his daughter, and she was an adult at that time. From what I remember of the first book, Jefferson Caird in his Tuesday persona was an organic (a police officer), and among the things that he was going to do was to go to the bureau of something and apply for a license to have a child, and it would be his first child. That book followed each one of his personae for one day. Later on that week his Tuesday wife was killed by the lunatic immer he was chasing, and none of his other personae had children, and even if they did they would have had a different surname. There wasn't enough time elapsed from the start of the story to when he met her, for her to have grown to an adult. Forget that, she was a very minor character in the story anyway. The story then picks up with Duncan(Caird) and Snick escaping from Immerman's penthouse, making public the formula for the age slowing factor, and the fact that the world population was 2 billion not 10, and that the need for the day system was no longer necessary.After destoning the entire population of LA, knocking the power out, escaping to the wilds, he and Snick came back to the city, met with members of the rebellion group, until they worked their way to the top. After some more havoc, they escaped again.The next part of the story is sort of a turning point and unexpected, so rather than be a spoiler I'll stop exposing any more of the plot. The introduction foreshadowed the breakup of dayworld so I can say there was a bit more with the logistics of trying to create a world to accomodate seven times as many people. There was a definite change of pace.The Dayworld trilogy is good, in spite of it going from action oriented to more psychological writing for a hundred pages. I guess there had to be some ending and he did kind of try to explain what happened to make Caird the way he was. It didn't get to a point where I had to slog through it. I can still recommend it, and the whole series.
