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From: mercury@ut-ngp.UUCP (Larry E. Baker)
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Subject: Re: Number of the Beast
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 13:53:25 EST
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. >                  One character there that I couldn't recognize was the
. > dragon, Sir Issac Newton. Anybody know where this one came from??

> ... I believe he was a character in _Between Worlds_ (is
> that the real title).  The story, which I am a lot more sure of, is a
> boy, Don something, who does some traveling by himself, ends up on
> Venus during the Venusian revolt against Earth, fights with the
> rebellian.  It turns out that he is carrying s secret message in his
> rign from his father to scientists on Venus which will enable them to
> do something which will help stop the war.  Sound familiar?
> Sir Issac was a Venusian scientist.

The book is "Between Planets," one of his "young-people" oriented
books.


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