Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 7/26/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!slb From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Yet another story request Message-ID: <2702@drutx.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-May-85 18:13:58 EDT Article-I.D.: drutx.2702 Posted: Tue May 7 18:13:58 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 8-May-85 05:43:31 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 40 Since I have been searching for this book for some time without success, and since everyone else uses this newsgroups for such searches... I think I read this book when I was around 12. It is hard to remember. (I started reading SF at about 10, and never really read any juveniles-- started on the hard stuff.) It was, I seem to remember, an ACE double. I do not remember either the author or title. I eagerly grab any ACE double I can find to see if that is it--but so far no luck. The story concerns a space pilot in a war. He is captured and imprisoned on a far away planet in a fairly conventional cell. His captors have never had a human prisoner before. He manages to drive them fairly crazy with his wild sense of humor--for instance, he convinces them he has an invisible double who plays tricks on them. I remember his making a "radio" to talk to the double out of some wire and a block of wood--then making sure the guards find it. Finally they let him go just to get rid of him. I remember the story as hilarious--but my sense of humor may have changed in 25 years or so. Does anyone else remember this--especially the author and/or title? -- Sue Brezden Real World: Room 1B17 Net World: ihnp4!drutx!slb AT&T Information Systems 11900 North Pecos Westminster, Co. 80234 (303)538-3829 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Honk if you love Shiva! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~