The Secret of the Ninth Planet
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About This Book
While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved. In this book I have assumed that the many researchers now actually at work on this problem will achieve such a result in the next decade. It is not at all impossible that they may for we all know that the more minds that work at a problem, the sooner it will be solved. The discovery of a means of negating, reversing or otherwise utilizing the immense force of gravitation for space flight purposes is now thought to be within the bounds of probability...
Chapters (28)
- The Secret of the Ninth Planet
- A Science Fiction Novel
- Jacket design by James Heugh
- Cecile Matschat, Editor Carl Carmer, Consulting Editor THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY Philadelphia Toronto Copyright, 1959 By Donald A. Wollheim FIRST EDITION Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 59-5328 Manufactured in the United States of America
- For— Three denizens of this minor planet: Eleanor, Bill, and of course Janet.
- The Mysterious Ninth World
- The Secret of the Ninth Planet
- Chapter 1. Special Delivery—by Guided Missile
- Chapter 2. The Valley of Stolen Sunlight
- Chapter 3. The Secret of A-G 17
- Chapter 4. The Hidden Skyport
- Chapter 5. Up the Rope of Space
- Chapter 6. Sunward Ho!
- Chapter 7. Hot Spot on Mercury
- Chapter 8. The Veil of Venus
- Chapter 9. The Ocean Primeval
- Chapter 10. The Dying Planet
- Chapter 11. Martians Don't Care
- Chapter 12. At Rope's End
- Chapter 13. The Pole of Callisto
- Chapter 14. Rockets Away!
- Chapter 15. Ice Cold on Oberon
- Chapter 16. In Orbit Around Pluto
- Chapter 17. Stronghold of the Lost Planet
- Chapter 18. Sacrifice on the Sacred Moon
- Chapter 19. The Museum of Galactic Life
- About the Author
- Other Winston Science Fiction Novels
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