The Secret Of The Ninth Planet

Description

Fans of sci-fi will love this exciting little novel written by Donald Wollheim. A simple writing style, an exciting plot and a few impressively well-defined characters will be enough to keep you glued to your seat as you read about a future alien threat that’s both original and quite interesting, to say the least.

Danning Burl and his father are immediately sent on an important mission to circle the solar system after it has been determined that certain strange machines deposited on Earth and the other planets in the Solar System are acting as sun tapping devices, and reducing the amount of light that reaches the Earth from the Sun. Danning himself was assigned to the mission due to his unique ability of shutting down the devices through a special type of energy he possesses.

Although Burl and the crew are on board the Magellan – an experimental ship – and en route to Pluto (the Ninth Planet), where undoubtedly the alien race that planted the devices is waiting for them, they fearlessly move forward, overcoming traps and challenges in what can be named as a truly fabulous science fiction adventure.

Wollheim has written this novel in a somewhat liberal and light manner, allowing readers to enjoy it thoroughly without the need to challenge their own beliefs or look up complex words and learn about rocket science. Instead, the book is quite accessible to just about anyone with a basic knowledge of the Solar System, and can be very entertaining as well, Burl’s adventure and all parts of the plot offering plenty of eye-opening exciting scenes that will keep you on your toes.

Some might say that they don’t make sci-fi books as they used to, and when it comes to evaluating The Secret of the Ninth Planet, this seems to be very close to the truth. Published for the first time in 1959, it paved the way for plenty of modern day sci-fi ideas through its impressive originality.
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