Passage to Pluto

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Passage to Pluto
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First edition
Author Hugh Walters
Cover artist Leslie Wood
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesChris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A
Genre Science fiction novel
Publisher Faber
Publication date
1973
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages148
ISBN 0-571-09908-4
OCLC 628891
823/.9/14
LC Class PZ7.W1715 Pas
Preceded by First Contact?  
Followed by Tony Hale, Space Detective  

Passage to Pluto is a juvenile science fiction novel, the fourteenth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. [1]

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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. 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.

This was the last of Hugh Walters' 'exploration' novels as his realistic approach could not envisage travel further afield.

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