Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 ggr 02/21/84; site cord.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!cord!gwr From: gwr@cord.UUCP (GW Ryan) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Can anyone identify Message-ID: <130@cord.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 12:17:26 EST Article-I.D.: cord.130 Posted: Thu Jan 17 12:17:26 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:42:18 EST References: <273@topaz.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway Lines: 34 > Re: Can anyone identify > > this book? It was written by Alan E. Nourse (I think...) > > Hero is a member of "Earth Intelligence". He is trying to catch a > spy for the "bad guys" (I don't remember who they are). The spy has > the ability to teleport himself from any point on a planet to any > other, or to teleport from ground to orbit (or vice versa). I > recall that the Earth empire held together because their military > could supposedly cause suns to nova. > > The only other thing that I remember is that many characters turn > out to actually be different people than the reader is led to > believe. In fact, at least one character really isn't the person HE > thought he was... > > >This one is (I think) "The Programmed Man". The author is not Nourse, >but a husband/wife team, in the early part of the alphabet. This sounds like a story I read ages ago. It's been a long time: am I confusing this story with another one? I remember the head bad guy was something like Golem Gregor (and they would say "I work for Dr. G")? The teleport was named something like Myron Terrel??? and I remember that the military secret about the cause-suns-to-go-nova bomb was that every warship was really flying with an empty bomb bay. am I thinking of a different story? If so, which one?? jerry ryan cord!gwr