''Passage to Pluto'' is a juvenile
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
novel, the fourteenth in
Hugh Walters' ''Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A.'' series.
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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.
Plot summary
Chris Godfrey is now deputy-director of UNEXA; he sends his former crew-mates to investigate unexplained perturbations in the orbit of Pluto
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. They discover that not only are their fuel tanks holed, but a super-dense wandering planet dubbed "Planet X" is on course to decimate the Solar System
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.
This was the last of Hugh Walters' 'exploration' novels as his realistic approach could not envisage travel further afield.
See also
* Nibiru cataclysm
The Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous encounter between Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a near-miss) that certain groups believed would take place in the early 21st century. Believers in this doomsday event ...
References
External links
Passage to Pluto page
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1973 British novels
1973 science fiction novels
Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series
Faber and Faber books
Fiction set on Pluto
1973 children's books
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