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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Juvenile story search
Message-ID: <1334@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-May-85 10:12:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1334
Posted: Wed May  1 10:12:25 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 2-May-85 00:32:35 EDT
References: <1838@topaz.ARPA>
Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

In article <1838@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:Slocum.CSCDA@HI-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
>From: Slocum@HI-MULTICS.ARPA
>
>The books you describe about a planet that can only be seen with certain
>lenses is "Mr.  Bass's Planetoid", and other books.  I don't remember
>the author.  I was just thinking about these books while reading your
>message.  strange coincidence.  What I remember about these books is Mr.
>Bass who was a charming old man that some kids meet.  He shows them in
>his telescope this strange little planetoid orbiting real close to
>Earth.  Later on they travel there in a space ship.  It turns out that
>Mr.  Bass is a native, I think.  I don't remember much about the place,
>but I did enjoy them while in 5th Grade.  I seem to recall reading them
>shortly after I started reading SF.  Probably after reading A Wrinkle in
>Time by M.  L'engle, my favorite juvenile book.
>
>Brett Slocum (arpa:  Slocum@HI-MULTICS) (UUCP:
>...!ihnp4!umn-cs!hi-csc!slocum)

hmmm.  i remember these as the "Mushroom Planet" books, of which i have only
seen two.  i still have them around somewhere.  either that or i gave them
to my little brother.  

Herb Chong...

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