The Secret of the Ninth Planet
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A slight dimming of the Sun turns an archaeological expedition in the Andes into the opening of a much larger puzzle. High school student Burl Denning is exploring Inca ruins with his father when sunlight begins to disappear across the solar system. Donald A. Wollheim builds his science fiction adventure around this threat, imagining a spacecraft called the Magellan whose control of gravity makes travel between planets possible.
The action combines exploration with an urgent investigation into the machinery draining the Sun's light. In the Mars episode, the crew studies canals, cities and failing vegetation before tracing the disturbance to a station within a Martian city. These scenes make observation and engineering part of the suspense. Readers interested in earlier visions of space travel will find an imagined solar system shaped by speculation about planetary life, with Pluto occupying a central place in the mystery.
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- Author
- Donald A. Wollheim
- Pages
- 116
- Language
- English
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- American Classics
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