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Written by one of the Great's from those days, Donald A. Wollheim, who also became the Publisher of DAW books, this tale of adventure, mystery and scientific discovery that, beginning on the Earth, treaks from one end of the Solar System to the other, is still well worth reading.
Now it can be read for free:
The Secret of the Ninth Planet
by
Donald A. Wollheim
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Burl Denning is a meamber of an expidition doing research in the Andes Mountains.
On awakening one morinig the team notices that the sunlight seems to be rather dim in such clear air at an altitude far above sea leavel. They ponder whether or not there may have been a volcanic eruption somplace on the planet that has spread a dust cloud around the globe.
Having been, for some strange reason, unable to establish radio contact with the outside world they can only continue to guess.
Then, out of the clear blue sky, a small rocket flys overhead and drops a parachute.
Inside the capsule lowered by the chute is a message from the United States Air Force, asking the expidition to investigate a valey over the next ridge of mountains. They are informed that the cause of the missing sunlight lies in that valley. The team is ask to cross to the site and investigate, and the adventure begins....
The Secret of the Ninth Planet is available free to read at:
by
Donald A. Wollheim
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:
59-5328
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- Review orginally posted: August 23, 2000
by
Murray Leinster.
Available as HTML down-loadable eBook at: THE WAILING ASTEROID
This is an excellent novel from the halcyon days of the 1960's.
For whatever the reason, it has made its way into the public domain (a boon for all lovers of traditional Science Fiction).
Thanks to the Internet and "The Gutenberg Project" it has now been preserved for posterity in an (hopefully) un-perishable form.
I first read this millennium spanning tale as a teenager duringing the late 1960's and had all but forgotten the novel until finding it once again at a used paperback book store.
Now I not only have the paperback but also the electronic version of the book.
What joy!
The tale begins in the present day (of the time the book was written, of course) with a tinkerer who, plauged by puzzeling dreams which have been with him from childhood, is attempting to build a new type of reactionless drive. An idea which has arisen from visions seen in the dreams.
As this project is under way, Astronomers announce to the world that they have recieved a mysterious radio signal from outer space. The signal is coming from a small asteroid, located in our own solar system!
The young entrepreneur, accompanied by two close friends, hurriedly constructs a small space craft and, powering it with his revolutionary new drive sets off to explore the source of the signal...and the adventure begins.
Do go to THE WAILING ASTEROID and down-load your free copy today.
This is a Must Read for all Sci-Fi Fans!
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