<div dir="ltr">It is my understanding that Project Wombat, <a href="http://project-wombat.org/faq.shtml">http://project-wombat.org/faq.shtml</a>, is a good place to ask these kinds of questions. Librarians all over the country will help you. It use to be called Stumpers.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Sarah Jesudason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sjesudason@ci.tualatin.or.us" target="_blank">sjesudason@ci.tualatin.or.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Absolutely not Dune.<br>
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On Nov 6, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Hartley, Melissa <<a href="mailto:melissa.hartley@oregonstate.edu" target="_blank">melissa.hartley@oregonstate.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span>Dune / by Frank Herbert?<span> </span>First published 1965.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28novel%29" target="_blank">https://<span>en.wikipedia.org</span>/wiki/Dune_%<span>28novel%29</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif";color:black">Desert planet<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif";color:black">Hot atmosphere<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif";color:black">Leathery skin<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif";color:black">Magic substance that gives powers<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif";color:black">Melissa Hartley<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif";color:black">Valley Library<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Holly Campbell-Polivka<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, November 06, 2015 4:16 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> libs-or (<a href="mailto:libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank">libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>);
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Libs-Or] Stumper<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Hi Great Brain,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">I'm hoping someone can help me out with this stumper.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Here is what I know:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";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.
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";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.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";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.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Any ideas?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Holly Polivka<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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