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Subject: Re: "MUgwump 9"
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 06:03:25 EDT
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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]