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Title: The Secret of the Ninth Planet

Author: Donald Allen Wollheim

Release Date: September 5, 2010 [EBook #33644]

Language: English

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The Secret of the Ninth Planet

_A Science Fiction Novel_

By Donald A. Wollheim

Jacket design by James Heugh

[Transcriber note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

_Cecile Matschat, Editor_
_Carl Carmer, Consulting Editor_

THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
Philadelphia Toronto

Copyright, 1959
By Donald A. Wollheim

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 59-5328

_Manufactured in the United States of America_

For--
Three denizens of this minor planet:
Eleanor, Bill, and of course Janet.

Contents

_The Mysterious Ninth World_

1. _Special Delivery--by Guided Missile_

2. _The Valley of Stolen Sunlight_

3. _The Secret of A-G 17_

4. _The Hidden Skyport_

5. _Up the Rope of Space_

6. _Sunward Ho!_

7. _Hot Spot on Mercury_

8. _The Veil of Venus_

9. _The Ocean Primeval_

10. _The Dying Planet_

11. _Martians Don't Care_

12. _At Rope's End_

13. _The Pole of Callisto_

14. _Rockets Away!_

15. _Ice Cold on Oberon_

16. _In Orbit Around Pluto_

17. _Stronghold of the Lost Planet_

18. _Sacrifice on the Sacred Moon_

19. _The Museum of Galactic Life_

_About the Author_

_The Mysterious Ninth World_

While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may
not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is
solved. In this book I have assumed that the many researchers now
actually at work on this problem will achieve such a result in the next
decade. It is not at all impossible that they may--for we all know that
the m