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Country United Kingdom Publication date 1967 Pages 160 Publisher Faber and Faber Genres Novel, Science Fiction | 3.4/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1967 Page count 160 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A Similar Nearly Neptune, The Mohole Mystery, Moon Base One, Terror by Satellite, Mission to Mercury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spaceship to saturn the test run
Spaceship to Saturn is a juvenile science fiction novel, the tenth in Hugh Walters' "Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A." series. It was published in 1967 in the UK by Faber and in the US by Criterion Books and in Portugal under the title Voo para Saturno by Edições Dêagã in 1975.
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Plot summary
The length of the trip to Saturn means that the crew will undergo 'hypothermia' for the duration of the flight, however a massive increase in meteor activity around Saturn threatens to cancel the mission as the computer on Earth will be unable to manoeuvre the craft at such long distances to avoid collisions. The solution - instantaneous telepathy; twins Gill and Gail maintain a telepathic carrier-wave even under hypothermia which can be modulated to carry telemetry. A landing is attempted on Titan but problems arise requiring the ship to be flown through the Cassini division, a narrow gap in the rings of Saturn...