Help me find a Short story?

[KatyMac]

It's Sci-fi set in the future with matter transmitters and a little girl (or boy) decides to walk home

& eventually get gets a cold and is sent to a psychiatrist who then walks home to

I read Heinlein< Asimov and a lot of MacCaffrey when I was younger but I can't put my finger on it

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You OP doesn't really make sense. You may get more response if you rewrite it - and possibly add a bit more detail

You could be right

They use 'Doors' to get from place to place in the story - all lining up after school with the teacher setting the Door to the right address - some sort of matter transferance; walking outside is always avoided

One day a little girl I think sneaks out the emergency door and enjoys her walk home from school and trys to do it every day (except when it was raining)

Her mum gets a psychiatrist in to find out why her daughter is being so disobedient and he follows her home from school

He also enjoys the walk so much he starts to walk outside too

I thought it was one of my favourite authors Heinlien.Asimov or McCaffery but I can't seem to find it

It's not Heinlein, but it is reminiscent of "Tunnel in the Sky" by him, with "gates" so that could be confusing.
It sounds good though, I am hoping someone knows cos it sounds like one I would like

Ta da!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Such_a_Beautiful_Day

I liked that one

Haha @UselessTrees perfect!!

OK it was a boy not a girl but I even capialiised the Door

It got me thinking about post covid and going out again and whether it will be what everyone wants to do or if we will be more isolated after

I was recently thinking about The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, which I read as a teenager, for much the same reasons. Something about the slightly eerie empty streets and the transgressive feeling of walking around. Haven't read any sci-fi short stories for ages, actually; I think I might put some on my list.

I mean it's very close to a Zombie story or day of the triffids?

Of that one of Heinlein's puppet masters?

It's by Isaac Asimov.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Such_a_Beautiful_Day

...and I should have read the whole thread.

@KatyMac

I found a pdf.

Page 123 .

HERE

Couple of screen shots

How lovely - thank you

The other book i was thinking of was 'do androids dream...' about genetic engineering of people

And much more recently a sci-fi book about people who were normal (did not have cancer) being made to donate blood every week so that they could try and find a cure and the main character suddenly getting pancreatic cancer so no longer giving blood

But that was recent this year i read it i think

@KatyMac

If you're thinking of Do Androids dream About Electric Sheep? by Philip Dick that isn't about genetic Engineering of people but artificial life gestalt religiosity, and failed marriage.

Oh I must be misremembering there was a conversation between the main protagonist and a barman (?) who got extra money form the government because they had remained as 'norms' and not been genetically midified

I wonder which book that was

& a character whose job it was to edit the cigarette smoke out of films/movies because everyone was so traumatised by so many people dying from lung cancer

Now which book/film was that one

God I hate menopause!!

I have a copy of Androids right in my eyeline behind my monitor here. I'll flip through it tonight and see if I can find anything that looks like that scene.

God my memory has become so unreliable - in our family I was the one they rang to ask which book was it that.....

The barman conversation is in "Beyond this Horizon" by Heinlein.

That's right!!

Thanks guys your help is invaluable

Sounds like it's time to sit down and read through all the Asimov, Heinlein, Dick, Clarke, Van Vogt, Simak etc that you can get your hands on :)

Yes I had to give away all my books as my arthritis didnt let me hold them!

I guess it's nearly my birthday so I can buy kindle ones!!