''Mr. Bass's Planetoid'' is a 1958 children's science fiction

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

by Canadian author Eleanor Cameron. The novel follows ''

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet ''The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet'' is a children's science fiction novel written by Eleanor Cameron, illustrated by Robert Henneberger, and published by Little, Brown in 1954. It is set in Pacific Grove, California, and on Basidium ...

'' (1954) and ''

Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet '' Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet ''is the second in the series of ''Mushroom Planet'' books by Eleanor Cameron, and was published in 1956, two years after ''The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet''. This children's book is set in a beach ...

'' (1956). The book is illustrated by Louis Darling.

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The boys hunt for Prewytt Brumblydge, inventor of the Brumblitron, which is threatening to explode, destroying the Earth. This time, instead of journeying to Basidium, they fly to an airless rock named Lepton that orbits 1,000 miles above the Earth's surface. This novel introduces the fictional metal ''Brumblium'', a greenish metal that shows as infragreen on a spectroscope and has twice the density of uranium.

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