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
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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?
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Article-I.D.: aesat.390
Posted: Wed May  8 09:28:59 1985
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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.....

	dale r groves
	AES Data, Inc
	Mississauga, Ontario


			THE SHADOW KNOWS.....

Article-I.D.: mtgzz.726
Posted: Tue May 14 01:31:57 1985
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Surely you are talking about THE SPACE WILLIES by Eric Frank Russell
which was in an Ace Double with SIX WORLDS YONDER by Russell.  I didn't
remember the story myself by a gave a call to my Eustace and he
remembered.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper

Article-I.D.: hyper.194
Posted: Wed May  8 13:47:56 1985
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This sounds like THE SPACE WILLIES by...er...
oh, heck with it.  How do I kill a follow-up
once I'm this far with it?

		-- SKZB

Article-I.D.: lll-crg.572
Posted: Wed May  8 03:44:25 1985
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Reply-To: muffy@lll-crg.UUCP (Muffy Barkocy)
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The book about the guy caught by the aliens who drives them crazy is called
"The Space Willies."  It is one of my favorite stories, by Eric Frank
Russell.  It's in an ACE double with "Six Worlds Yonder," also by Eric Frank
Russell.

                                Muffy

Article-I.D.: petsd.519
Posted: Fri May 10 19:37:32 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 11-May-85 03:53:26 EDT
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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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Article-I.D.: ukc.5119
Posted: Thu May 16 10:40:46 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 12-May-85 00:12:51 EDT
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Reply-To: csw@ukc.UUCP (CHRIS WELCH)
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The book title that Sue Brezden is looking for is "Next of Kin" by Eric
Frank Russell. Another one of his that I found very entertaining was
"Wasp". Set against the same background of technologically advanced Earth
against less advanced but numerically superior Sirians ( spot the theme!)
it is the tale of a reluctant secret agent dropped on a planet behind
enemy lines with orders to create as much chaos as possible. Worth looking
at if you have the time, but not a great work of literature.


                                                 Chris Welch
                                                 Cranfield Institute
                                                 U.K.

                                                 csw@ukc.uucp