@RUTGERS.ARPA:jpa144@cit-vax (04/30/85)
From: jpa144@cit-vax (Jens Peter Alfke) The story that Laurence Brothers mentioned, wherein the hero gets caught in the midst of a cabal of sinister midgets by dialing a MUgwump number instead of a MUrray Hill number, is actually by Robert Silverberg. (The title is indeed "Mugwump 9" as above). Rather than let him loose to spoil their plans to take over the world and kill all tall people, the midgets just send him back in time to the point just before he made the call, thus trapping him in a time loop. Oh yes -- someone in #140 mentioned the juvenile(s) about a small planet orbiting earth which could only be seen through telescopes by using a special filter. These books are "The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet" (by Eleanor Cameron, I believe) and its sequels. I REALLY REALLY liked these books when I was in the fourth grade, but then again I was in the fourth grade and I haven't reread the books since. With any luck, though, the books will still be in print . . . --Peter Alfke [jpa144@cit-vax]
brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) (05/01/85)
> > Oh yes -- someone in #140 mentioned the juvenile(s) about a small > planet orbiting earth which could only be seen through telescopes > by using a special filter. These books are "The Wonderful Flight > to the Mushroom Planet" (by Eleanor Cameron, I believe) and its > sequels. I REALLY REALLY liked these books when I was in the fourth > grade, but then again I was in the fourth grade and I haven't reread > the books since. With any luck, though, the books will still be > in print . . . > > --Peter Alfke [jpa144@cit-vax] Strong agreement on the Mushroom Planet books. Does anyone know how I can get hold of them. I have a son who is going to be too old for them soon, and I want to read them again myself. Any info would be appreciated. -- SKZB