Day Million is a collection of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 short stories by Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl

Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" , to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led .He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel Jem...

, published in 1971. It contains stories:

• "Day Million" (1966)
• "The Deadly Mission of P. Snodgrass" (1962)
• "The Day the Martians Came" (1967)
• "Schematic Man" (1968)
• "Small Lords" (1956)
• "Making Love" (1966)
• "Way Up Yonder" (1959)
• "Speed Trap" (1967)
• "It's a Young World" (1941)
• "Under Two Moons" (1965)

The title story, Day Million, details the romantic affair between two people, referred to as Don and Dora (shortened versions of the names of both) in the millionth day CE, which falls late in the year 2737, although the author alternately describes it as being about a thousand years in the future. The story is told through differences with our 'primitive' civilisation and the civilisation humans have established by this time.