Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA,@MIT-MC:LS.SRB@MIT-EECS From: @RUTGERS.ARPA,@MIT-MC:LS.SRB@MIT-EECS Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Can anyone identify Message-ID: <273@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 14:03:13 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.273 Posted: Tue Jan 15 14:03:13 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 00:41:48 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 From: "Stephen R. Balzac"Date: Wednesday, 9 January 1985 14:55-EST From: Dean Sutherland To: SF-LOVERS at MIT-MC 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.