Kathy P's comments (member since Jun 19, 2009)

Kathy P's comments from the SciFi and Fantasy Book Club group.

It sounds like it, Pepper! Thanks. Hope I can find it.

Perhaps someone can help with the title of a sf book from my youth - which was a very long time ago. Here goes: For quite a while I’ve been wondering about a book I read when I was in, I think, elementary school (i.e., before about 1958-59). So it was written before 1960, probably.

A man named Shakespeare (William Shakespeare, I think) is mistakenly kidnapped by aliens who think he is the playwright. He is taken to either Deimos or Phobos, a moon of Mars. Others in the same alien abduction are teenagers who have given the aliens reason to presume they are some other famous people whose names are identical. Of course there’s more to it, but that’s all I remember, and I could be mistaken about the teenagers’ names.

If this strikes anybody as even vaguely familiar, I’d love to hear!

Kathy