[net.sf-lovers] Title Wanted

tc@amd70.UUCP (Tom Crawford) (02/20/84)

A long, long time ago (probably mid-50's) I read a book in which people
got this desease which turned them into super-folk (indestructable and
very strong as I recall).  The name of the desease was Murchansens Desease
or something not too far from that.  Anybody know the Title and/or author?

				Tom Crawford
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barry@statvax.UUCP (Kenn Barry) (02/22/84)

The book has appeared under 2 titles I am aware of: "Space Plague" (abridged
version) and "Highways in Hiding" (orig. title). The author is George O.
Smith. The disease, by the way, was "Mekstrom's Disease", not "Murcheson's".
Fine book; one of my old favorites.

magi@deepthot.UUCP (David Wiseman) (02/22/84)

Tom Crawford asks >>>>>
A long, long time ago (probably mid-50's) I read a book in which people
got this desease which turned them into super-folk (indestructable and
very strong as I recall).  The name of the desease was Murchansens Desease
or something not too far from that.  Anybody know the Title and/or author?
<<<<<

I remember the book. The copy I had was titled "Space Plague" and I
think the disease was called something closer to "Mekstrom's disease".
I don't remember the author's name. My copy of the book was swallowed
by the post office when I mailed it to myself (for good reasons which
I won't go into). I have been looking for another copy for a looooonnnnggggg
time.

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