(Found) Mind travel to a different world

[Doone1257]

I am looking for a book I read back in 1987. All I remember is that a person from earth (maybe a scientist?) connected to someone via his mind who was a prince in another world in the galaxy. When they exchanged minds and entered each other's bodies the guy from earth found out that the prince's world was at war, and everyone on his planet thought that he was actually the prince. He couldn't get back to exchange minds. I can't remember the end of the book.

 

[Danny McG]

I am looking for a book I read back in 1987. All I remember is that a person from earth (maybe a scientist?) connected to someone via his mind who was a prince in another world in the galaxy. When they exchanged minds and entered each other's bodies the guy from earth found out that the prince's world was at war, and everyone on his planet thought that he was actually the prince. He couldn't get back to exchange minds. I can't remember the end of the book.

I don't know this one (yet!)
It looks like someone else asked a similar question in here but didn't get an answer

Looking for a book pre-1994

Book starts with a person in modern times (time when book was written), where a male main character finds himself in another body, done by a mind switch, temporarily. This body is of an heir to some galactic empire, which stands on a brink of war with another force. The facility where the...

www.sffchronicles.com

 

[Danny McG]

Possible answer from another site

The Star Kings by Edmond Hamilton

Goodreads blurb:-

Flung across space and time by the sorcery of super-science, John Gordon exchanges bodies with Zarth Arn, Prince of the Mid-Galactic Empire 2000 centuries in the future! Suddenly John is thrust into a last-ditch battle between the democratic Empire World and the tyranny of the Black Cloud regime. Only one weapon—the terrifying Disruptor— can win the struggle for the Empire Forces. But it is so powerful that unless John uses it correctly it could destroy not only the enemy but the cosmos.

 

[Doone1257]

Possible answer from another site

The Star Kings by Edmond Hamilton

Goodreads blurb:-

Flung across space and time by the sorcery of super-science, John Gordon exchanges bodies with Zarth Arn, Prince of the Mid-Galactic Empire 2000 centuries in the future! Suddenly John is thrust into a last-ditch battle between the democratic Empire World and the tyranny of the Black Cloud regime. Only one weapon—the terrifying Disruptor— can win the struggle for the Empire Forces. But it is so powerful that unless John uses it correctly it could destroy not only the enemy but the cosmos.

Thanks for the information. When I looked it up - I found the 1967 book cover that I remember. So this was the book!
I've now found a copy. Thankyou!

 

[Doone1257]

I know it's not a book... but I saw an old movie years ago and the only thing I remember is that a woman tried to get a guy she had fallen in love with to walk through some eternal flame thing that happened only once every 50 years or so - which when you walked through it, the flame world give you eternal life.
She wanted to show him it was safe and went through it again before him, and it reversed the effects and she crumbled to dust.

It's the only thing I recall and always thought it was Elizabeth Taylor who played the woman - but I am wrong.
If anyone has an idea, I would appreciate it. Maybe a 1950's movie?

 

[Danny McG]

I know it's not a book... but I saw an old movie years ago and the only thing I remember is that a woman tried to get a guy she had fallen in love with to walk through some eternal flame thing that happened only once every 50 years or so - which when you walked through it, the flame world give you eternal life.
She wanted to show him it was safe and went through it again before him, and it reversed the effects and she crumbled to dust.

It's the only thing I recall and always thought it was Elizabeth Taylor who played the woman - but I am wrong.
If anyone has an idea, I would appreciate it. Maybe a 1950's movie?

Shangri-la?

 

[Dave]

She (A History of Adventure) by H. Rider Haggard, 1887

It was Ursula Andress in the 1965 film adaptation.

 

[Doone1257]

Ursula Andress

Oh... I never knew it was an adaptation from a novel! Interesting...
I'd not seen the movie since the early 1970's and couldn't remember much about it at all! Both the movie and The Star Kings have plagued my memory for years as I couldn't recall much about either!!
Thanks for the reply!

I also found out there was an earlier movie in 1935 with Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, and Nigel Bruce starring, so I'm not sure which one I have seen...

 

[Doone1257]

Shangri-la

Interesting. This is another movie (and the novel Lost Horizon) that I'd forgotten about!
Thanks for the reminder!!