Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:Purtill.SIPB@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:Purtill.SIPB@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re(2): obscure juveniles Message-ID: <1846@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 17:43:08 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.1846 Posted: Tue Apr 30 17:43:08 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 1-May-85 04:36:10 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 30 From: Mark Purtill >I have been trying to remember about a certain series of 'novels' >(i.e. 4th grade equivalent) about a peculiar inhabited planet which >orbits Earth or orbits the sun near Earth. A very special type of >lens was required to see this planet, which was why real astronomers >didn't know about it; but somehow a kid found such a lens or ran >into a visitor from this planet (whom I remember as a nice little >man) and got involved in various problems on this planet. I remember these (or someother books like them) too. I think the planet was called the * [green] [mushroom] planet, and that there were two kids involved: an older brother and a younger sister; they got in touch with a scientist with a rocket (who may have come from the green mushroom (or whatever it was) planet) through an ad in the classified section of the local newspaper (about mushrooms?); he lived on a street that was only a block long. Also, I think that on the planet you automagically spoke and wrote in some other language, and that this foiled some villianous characters plans (although I may be thinking of something else, e.g., De Camp and Pratt's Harold Shea series.) Does anyone have exact details for these, eg author/title(s)? And does anyone remember the Mathew Looney books, about an (alien) kid from the moon (where they thought DARKNESS traveled at c)? Mark ^.-.^ Purtill at MIT-MULTICS ((")) 2-032 MIT Cambrige MA 02139