SOLVED. YA/ MG? Sci-Fi. Kid has a robot/ android twin in space (large spaceship?). Villain is chasing kid and wants to kill him. Read in 1980s/early 1990s. Spoiler ahead. [s]

[Becky]

Sometime in the 80s or early 90s, I read a story about a kid who had a robot/android twin. I'm pretty sure they were in space, maybe on a large spaceship. The villain was after them and wanted to throw the kid into (I think it was acid) to get rid of him. The robot switched places with him and I think they tricked the villain into getting in the container/pool/whatever because the robot appeared to enjoy swimming in the liquid. I've asked on Reddit and a couple other places in the past, but no dice. Does anyone recognize the story? Thanks for your help!

[Tab]

Omega Station from the "Robot Buddy" series?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2304...

Here is a review from Kirkus:
The pair from My Robot Buddy and C.O.L.A.R., Jack Jameson and his robot twin Danny II, are off on a dangerous mission when robot-maker Dr. Atkins sends them into space to find out why evil Dr. Otto Drago,(view spoiler)[ Atkins' former assistant, is robotnapping the boy and girl robots on C.O.L.A.R. According to C.O.L.A.R. robot Carl's computer, the plan has a 25 percent chance of success and Jack a 10 percent chance of surviving; but one doesn't question Dr. Atkins' ethics. Soon Jack, impersonating Danny, is whisked off to Drago's Omego Station, in moon orbit, and ordered into a pool to arm the last of five nuclear bombs with which Drago plans to explode the universe. The robots he's been kidnapping to do this work last two weeks in the pool, but humans would be done-for within ten seconds. So there is Jack on the edge of the pool while the ship of boy and girl robots that has followed him tries to find the code to enter the station. Just in time the light fails, the ship gets in, Jack and Danny switch places, and with a little more trickery they have Drago himself in the pool, disintegrating before their eyes. (hide spoiler)]

[Kris]

Becky, I removed the spoiler from the header and added a few details. You can update it by clicking the small "edit" link after the header. This only works on the full Desktop website - not the Mobile website or app. (On the Mobile website, click the "Desktop version" link at the bottom of the page.)

[Becky]

Tab wrote: "Omega Station from the "Robot Buddy" series?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2304...

Here is a review from Kirkus:
The pair from My Robot Buddy and C.O.L.A.R., Jack Jame..."

YES!! This is it. Thank you so much!

[Becky]

Kris wrote: "Becky, I removed the spoiler from the header and added a few details. You can update it by clicking the small "edit" link after the header. This only works on the full Desktop website - not the Mob..."

Thanks so much, Kris! Sorry for the late reply. I knew I'd posted this somewhere but couldn't find my way back. :)

[Kris]

No worries. Glad you found your book, Becky. Thanks for the update.

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