<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34100"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34277" size="3">I'm wondering if it is one of the Dorsai novellas (Childe Cycle) written by Gordon R. Dickson. See the ISFDB for all the titles at </font><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34275" size="3"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33860" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?24">Gordon R. Dickson - Summary Bibliography</a></font><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33862"><font size="3"><span></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_37018"><font size="3"><br><span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34499"><font class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943">FYI, the Speculative Fiction Database has editors who compare to </span></font><font class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943">Clute and Nicholls (1995) <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34984">The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</i><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_37217" class="">, <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_38147" class="edited-link-editor" href="http://www.locusmag.com/index/">The Locus Index to Science Fiction</a></span></span></font><font class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_37217" class=""> (sometimes called the Contento indexes from when they were on CD-ROM.) </span><i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34984"><br></i></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_37208" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943"><br></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_37209" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943">I checked Clark Ashton Smith's The Immortals of Mercury, which is a collection of his stories, in Clute and Nicholls (1995.) He appears to have written mainly planetary romances (AKA space opera on a planet) that were published in Weird Tales and other pulps in the 1930s. <br></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_35896" dir="ltr"><br><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943"></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_36084" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943">I do wonder if the patron is missremembering two stories as one (computer interview and the desert planet being separate stories.) If so, he many be remembering an anthology or a collection. It may be there are connected stories. <br></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_36441" dir="ltr"><br><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943"></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_36679" dir="ltr"><font class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943">It also reminds me of the <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_37013" class="edited-link-editor" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?136">Jack Vance</a>'s Planet of Adventure stories, which as per </span></font><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943"><font class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34277" size="3">ISFDB </font>were:</span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39764" dir="ltr"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39809" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?2284">Planet of Adventure</a>
</div><ul class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39811" dir="ltr"><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39813"> 1
<i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39815"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39817" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?4403" dir="ltr">City of the Chasch</a></i> (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39819">1968</b>)
also appeared as:
<ul class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39821"><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39823">
<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39825">Variant Title:</b> <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39827"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39829" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?186771" dir="ltr">Chasch</a></i> (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39831">1986</b>)
</li><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39833">
<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39835">Variant Title:</b> <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39837"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39839" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1462484" dir="ltr">The Chasch</a></i> (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39841">2005</b>)
</li></ul>
</li><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39843"> 2
<i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39845"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39847" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?4404" dir="ltr">Servants of the Wankh</a></i> (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39849">1969</b>)
also appeared as:
<ul class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39851"><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39853">
<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39855">Variant Title:</b> <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39857"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39859" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?186772" dir="ltr">Wankh</a></i> (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39861">1986</b>)
</li><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39863">
<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39865">Variant Title:</b> <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39867"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39869" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1462485" dir="ltr">The Wannek</a></i> (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39871">2005</b>)
</li></ul>
</li><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39873"> 3
<i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39875"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39877" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?4405" dir="ltr">The Dirdir</a></i> (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39879">1969</b>)
</li><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39881"> 4
<i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39883"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39885" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?4406" dir="ltr">The Pnume</a></i> (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39887">1970</b>)
</li><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39889">
<i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39891"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39893" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1469867" dir="ltr">Tschaï 1</a></i> [French] (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39895">1971</b>) <b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39897">[O]</b>
</li><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39899">
<i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39901"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39903" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1469874" dir="ltr">Tschaï 2</a></i> [French] (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39905">1971</b>) <b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39907">[O]</b>
</li><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39909">
<i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39911"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39913" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?30081" dir="ltr">Planet of Adventure</a></i> (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39915">1973</b>) <b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39917">[O/1,2,3,4]</b>
also appeared as:
<ul class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39919"><li class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39921">
<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39923">Variant Title:</b> <i class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39925"><a class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39927" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1462454" dir="ltr">Tschai</a></i> (<b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39929">2005</b>) <b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_39931">[O]</b>
</li></ul>
</li></ul><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_36677" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_36677"><font class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943"> The <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_40769">Planet of Adventure</i> stories were collected and rereleased in 1993 by Tor under Planet of Adventure (see <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_40726" href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/planet-of-adventure/oclc/28376677">http://www.worldcat.org/title/planet-of-adventure/oclc/28376677</a>). If I remember correctly, there is a computer scene and a desert but I can't remember running fast. The protagonist has lots of training but not special powers. <br></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_41268" dir="ltr"><br><font class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943"></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_41273" dir="ltr"><font class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34944" size="3"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_34943">Marta<br></span></font></div><font size="3"> </font><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33644" class="signature"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33643" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33642" face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="4"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33641">Marta Murvosh</b>, MLS<b><br></b><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33646" size="2"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33645">librarian and freelance writer<br></i></font></font><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33658" face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="2"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33657" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:murvosh@yahoo.com">murvosh@yahoo.com</a></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33647"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33656" face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33655" size="2"><strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33654">360-610-9642 - mobile</strong></font><br><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_41274" size="1">Everett, WA - </font></font><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33662" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33661" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33660" size="1">Pacific Time zone</font><i><br></i><font size="1"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marta-murvosh/48/548/2a2">Linkedin</a> - </font></font></font><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="1"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/MartaMurvosh">Facebook</a></font></font></font></font><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="1"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"> - </font></font></font></font><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33668" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33667" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33666" size="2"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33665" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="1"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33664" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33663" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://murvosh.weebly.com/">Website</a></font></font></font></font><i><br></i></font></div></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33671" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33670" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33669" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33681" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33672" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Feinman, Todd" <tfeinman@ci.oswego.or.us><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "'Hartley, Melissa'" <melissa.hartley@oregonstate.edu>; 'Holly Campbell-Polivka' <Hollyc@tigard-or.gov>; "'libs-or (libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us)'" <libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us>; "'child@wccls.org'" <child@wccls.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 9, 2015 1:17 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33674"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33673" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Libs-Or] Stumper<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33675" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5800382420"><style>#yiv5800382420 #yiv5800382420 --
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<a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_33680" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=c-4S3ApCsy8C&pg=PT6&dq=desert+planet+leathery+skin+powers&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQ6AEwATgKahUKEwjpldSLoYTJAhXHRogKHc8VCnU#v=onepage&q=desert%20planet%20leathery%20skin%20powers&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=c-4S3ApCsy8C&pg=PT6&dq=desert+planet+leathery+skin+powers&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQ6AEwATgKahUKEwjpldSLoYTJAhXHRogKHc8VCnU#v=onepage&q=desert%20planet%20leathery%20skin%20powers&f=false</a></span></div>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Feinman, Todd<br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 09, 2015 1:16 PM<br clear="none">
<b>To:</b> 'Hartley, Melissa' <melissa.hartley@oregonstate.edu>; 'Holly Campbell-Polivka' <Hollyc@tigard-or.gov>; 'libs-or (libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us)' <libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us>; 'child@wccls.org' <child@wccls.org><br clear="none">
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Libs-Or] Stumper</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447175835587_35359" class="yiv5800382420MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.4pt;"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">Could it be
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<i>The Immortals of Mercury</i></span></b></div>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Hartley, Melissa<br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 06, 2015 4:46 PM<br clear="none">
<b>To:</b> 'Holly Campbell-Polivka' <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Hollyc@tigard-or.gov" target="_blank" href="mailto:Hollyc@tigard-or.gov">Hollyc@tigard-or.gov</a>>; 'libs-or (<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>)' <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Libs-Or] Stumper</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5800382420MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">How about: Dune / by Frank Herbert? First published 1965.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5800382420MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Desert planet</span></div>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Holly Campbell-Polivka<br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 06, 2015 4:16 PM<br clear="none">
<b>To:</b> libs-or (<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>);
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<b>Subject:</b> [Libs-Or] Stumper</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Hi Great Brain,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">I'm hoping someone can help me out with this stumper.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Here is what I know:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">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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<div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">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></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">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></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Any ideas?</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Holly Polivka</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Youth Services Librarian</span></div>
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