- Nearly Neptune
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Nearly Neptune 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 1969 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 165 ISBN 0571091113 Preceded by The Mohole Mystery Followed by First Contact? Nearly Neptune is a juvenile science fiction novel, the twelfth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1968, in the US by Washburn Books in 1969 under the title Neptune One is Missing.
As one of the best of the series, it is very collectable and changes hands at sums of £100-£200 on trading sites[1][2].
Plot summary
The book begins by announcing the death of Chris Godfrey and his three fellow astronauts after a fire and apparent break-up of their spacecraft as it approaches the orbit of Neptune as observed from Earth. The crew have however survived but are stranded as their hypothermia equipment is irreparably damaged.
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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The Caves of Drach (1978) · The Last Disaster (1978) · The Blue Aura (1979) · The Dark Triangle (1979) · The Glass Men (unpublished)Boy Astronaut Boy Astronaut (1977) · First Family on the Moon (1979) · School on the Moon (1981)Categories:- 1968 novels
- Children's science fiction novels
- 1960s science fiction novels
- Neptune in fiction
- Works by Hugh Walters
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