AboutSue Kayton Expertise Engineer who has read thousands of science fiction books and short stories. Can recommend stories on specific subjects and comment on technical feasibility. Especially good at older out-of-print books and authors.
Question Trying to find a book I read as a child...the plot involved a strange visitor on an island...a person(child?)rows out to this nearby island frequently...on one visit, they encounter a strange "visitor" who will be there for a certain amount of time...whoever wants to leave with the visitor can do so...but there is a storm....this is sketchy, I know, but it was a story I couldn't put down...
have wondered about it for years! It was from the local public library in the young adult books, if I remember right, and would have been in the late 60s early 70s...
Answer Sorry - I've read most of the adult SF, but hardly any of the juveniles. It might have been a magazine, too. Sorry I can't help you. Try googling some of the words. If you're really desperate, email mitsfs@mit.edu, the largest SF library in the world, located at MIT, and see if one of the students there recognizes it.
