The Secret of the Ninth PlanetDonald A. Wollheim
The Secret of the Ninth Planet
by OpenStories
Original author: Donald A. Wollheim
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"The Secret of the Ninth Planet" by Donald A. Wollheim is a science-fiction novel published in 1959. When the Sun's light mysteriously begins to dim across Earth, threatening a new ice age, young Burl Denning discovers alien machinery in the Peruvian Andes. As calculations reveal the Sun may explode within years, Burl joins a desperate expedition aboard an experimental antigravity spaceship to hunt down similar installations throughout the solar system and confront an alien force from Pluto.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet, by Donald A. Wollheim. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #33644.
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20 Chapters
- 1.Front Matter763 words
- 2.Chapter 1: Special Delivery--by Guided Missile2,503 words
- 3.Chapter 2: The Valley of Stolen Sunlight2,374 words
- 4.Chapter 3: The Secret of A-G 172,240 words
- 5.Chapter 4: The Hidden Skyport3,177 words
- 6.Chapter 5: Up the Rope of Space1,890 words
- 7.Chapter 6: Sunward Ho!2,476 words
- 8.Chapter 7: Hot Spot on Mercury2,596 words
- 9.Chapter 8: The Veil of Venus1,876 words
- 10.Chapter 9: The Ocean Primeval1,869 words
- 11.Chapter 10: The Dying Planet2,029 words
- 12.Chapter 11: Martians Don't Care2,388 words
- 13.Chapter 12: At Rope's End2,430 words
- 14.Chapter 13: The Pole of Callisto2,091 words
- 15.Chapter 14: Rockets Away!2,044 words
- 16.Chapter 15: Ice Cold on Oberon1,759 words
- 17.Chapter 16: In Orbit Around Pluto1,937 words
- 18.Chapter 17: Stronghold of the Lost Planet3,235 words
- 19.Chapter 18: Sacrifice on the Sacred Moon2,292 words
- 20.Chapter 19: The Museum of Galactic Life3,722 words