- The Domes of Pico
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The Domes of Pico Author(s) Hugh Walters Cover artist Leslie Wood Country United Kingdom Language English Series Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher Faber Publication date 1958 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 191 Preceded by Blast Off at Woomera Followed by Operation Columbus The Domes of Pico is a juvenile science fiction novel, the second in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1958, in the US by Criterion Books in 1959 under the title Menace from the Moon and in the Netherlands by Prisma Juniores as 'De Maan Valt Aan' in 1960.
Plot summary
To the lunar domes previously photographed in Blast Off at Woomera and situated near Mons Pico has been added a cone emitting powerful neutron radiation which is causing havoc to the Earth's nuclear power stations. The diminutive Chris Godfrey has the job of piloting a British rocket to plant a homing beacon next to the cone to enable a strike by American rockets carrying Soviet nuclear warheads...
External links
- Domes of Pico page and Text extract
- Nebula No.33. August 1958 Review by Ken Slater
U.N.E.X.A. series Blast Off at Woomera (1957) · The Domes of Pico (1958) · Operation Columbus (1959) · Moon Base One (1960) · Expedition Venus (1962) · Destination Mars (1963) · Terror by Satellite (1964) · Journey to Jupiter (1965) · Mission to Mercury (1965) · Spaceship to Saturn (1967) · The Mohole Mystery (1968) · Nearly Neptune (1968) · First Contact? (1971) · Passage to Pluto (1973) · Tony Hale, Space Detective (1973) · Murder on Mars (1975) · The Caves of Drach (1978) · The Last Disaster (1978) · The Blue Aura (1979) · The Dark Triangle (1979) · The Glass Men (unpublished)Boy Astronaut Boy Astronaut (1977) · First Family on the Moon (1979) · School on the Moon (1981)Categories:- 1958 novels
- 1950s science fiction novels
- Children's science fiction novels
- Moon in fiction
- Works by Hugh Walters
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