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<p>I believe Dennis Lien is reading and answering queries on Project Wombat, actually. </p>
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<p>Anna</p>
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<p>On 2015-11-09 19:13, Kyle Napoli wrote:</p>
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<p>Likewise, if Dennis Lien is still still reading and answering queries at Fiction_L, he seems able to solve every obscure SF stumper known to humankind.</p>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Kyle</p>
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<p>On 2015-11-09 17:25, Diedre Conkling wrote:</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Sarah Jesudason <span><<a href="mailto:sjesudason@ci.tualatin.or.us">sjesudason@ci.tualatin.or.us</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<div>Absolutely not Dune.<br /><br /> Artisan finger-typed communique.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Rounded MT Bold; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; color: black;">How about:<span> </span>Dune / by Frank Herbert?<span> </span>First published 1965.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Rounded MT Bold; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; color: black;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28novel%29">https://<span>en.wikipedia.org</span>/wiki/Dune_%<span>28novel%29</span></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Rounded MT Bold; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; color: black;">Desert planet<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;">Hi Great Brain,<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;">I'm hoping someone can help me out with this stumper.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;">Here is what I know:<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;">The juvenile science fiction book (or short story) begins with a guy being interviewed by a computer. He is sent to some sort of desert planet or desert world that is inhabited by beings with leather skin. It is very hot there, but there is a fruit he can eat that helps him tolerate the heat and also makes him be able to go very fast. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;">The patron is a gentleman who I would guess is in his 50s or 60s, and he read it as a kid, so I would guess it was probably published in the 1960s or before.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;">I did a google search and was able to find somebody else on a science fiction forum searching for what I believe may be the same book. The clue I got from that was that the person thinks the planet or world may be called something like Alpha. But I'm not sure if this is just a false lead or not. I'm wondering if the author possibly could be Robert Silverberg, and if the story may be Revolt on Alpha C, but I can't find enough of a description to find out whether it matches the patron's description, and when he reads the description, it doesn't ring a bell with him.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;">Any ideas?<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;">Holly Polivka<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></p>
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