book and author. ( its possibly a series)
clue #1 aliens of a lavender blue hue the protagonist calls "The Baldies"
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Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
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sorry. no.
slight mislead in the first clue as i read further i found out that the blue colour is actually the clothing they wear.
clue#2 : American author books written in late 50's and early 60's though there were collaborative re-visits in the 90's and 2000's
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"Well done that man!"
yes Alice Andre Norton , Key out of time was the one i was reading....
just got myself an ebook reader and apart from the anoying flicker of the eink display refreshing every page turn , it is SO much better than reading on the phone screen and now my ph lasts all day too...lol
the kipper,slipper ,flipper dipper thingamebob is on its way to the future...( sorry couldnt resist)
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Nice easy one, I hope - two beautiful young ladies with the initials TA, both starring in stories in Analog in the sixties and seventies. Who are they, and who's the author?
Third clue - they both appear in more stories individually than together
Fourth clue - the author wrote other stories in the same universe but using different characters - TA and TA are probably the best-known characters though.
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Cracked it - I don't know these stories myself but the trick was using "psychic" as a google keyword, not "telepath" …
The characters are Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee, and the author is James H. Schmitz.
Exactemundo - the dipper is yours.
I was going to make a very crude joke about what the initials TA really stood for, especially in the hands of most illustrators, but judge for yourself...
The one on the left is especially baffling because if I recall correctly the character is supposed to be about 18 at that point...
OK, new question. Name the author and the book: a widow with a young family seeks help in moving house from a group of escapees from the National Institute of Mental Health.
The miracles of velcro …!