Passage to Pluto
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Passage to Pluto is a juvenile science fiction
novel
, the fourteenth in Hugh Walters
' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber
in 1973, in the US by T.Nelson Books in 1975.
It was the last of the series to have a cover illustration by Leslie Wood
in the orbit of Pluto
. They discover that not only are their fuel tanks holed, but a super-dense wandering planet is on course to decimate the Solar system
...
This was the last of Hugh Walter's 'exploration' novels as his realistic approach could not envisage travel further afield.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
, the fourteenth in Hugh Walters
Hugh Walters (author)
Hugh Walters was a writer of juvenile Science Fiction novels from Bradley in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom.-Biography:...
' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
in 1973, in the US by T.Nelson Books in 1975.
It was the last of the series to have a cover illustration by Leslie Wood
Leslie Wood (illustrator)
Leslie Wood is an English artist and illustrator, now living in Poynton, Cheshire.He studied at the Manchester College of Art and Design and gained a travelling scholarship. Prevented from travelling abroad because of World War II, he instead went to London...
Plot summary
Chris Godfrey is now deputy-director of UNEXA; he sends his former crew-mates to investigate unexplained perturbationsPerturbation (astronomy)
Perturbation is a term used in astronomy in connection with descriptions of the complex motion of a massive body which is subject to appreciable gravitational effects from more than one other massive body....
in the orbit of Pluto
Pluto
Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun...
. They discover that not only are their fuel tanks holed, but a super-dense wandering planet is on course to decimate the Solar system
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
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This was the last of Hugh Walter's 'exploration' novels as his realistic approach could not envisage travel further afield.