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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Re: Yet another story request
Message-ID: <519@petsd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-May-85 19:37:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 19:37:32 1985
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	Dale Groves, searching old memories for a story title,
writes:
> I'm not sure, but this sounds like it could be 'The Space Willies'
> - author forgotten - I'll try to look it up 2 nite and mail you
> with author and flip side of double.  In my recollection, the
> prisoner also tried to befuddle his captors with logic problems
> such as:
> 
> 	if one hemisphere of a planet is water and the other
> 	hemisphere is land, is the water half a lake or the land
> 	half an island, given that an island is a body of land 
> 	surrounded by water and a lake is a body of water 
> 	surrounded by land.....
> 

	I think the original story was titled "Plus X" and was
by Christopher Anvil.  Public opinion seems to favor Eric
Frank Russell - I can't check till I get home and look up the
cover art in a book of Freas paintings and drawings.

	Dale is merging this story with "Diabologic" - also
published in ASF in 1956.

Regards,
Chris

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