mae@aplvax.UUCP (Mary Anne Espenshade) (06/27/85)
From Bob Gray (bobg@cstvax.UUCP): > There is a book (by E.C. TUBB, I think his name was, I can't remember > the title) which tells a story made up of two episodes from the > series and a story claimed to be a possible "Final episode". > This was writen after the series had ended and explains what > actually happened in the explosion. > ... > As I remember the moon was squeezed by the explosion and forced > into a strange fourth-dimensional orbit. This is how it got out > of the solar system so fast. > The moon eventually ends up back in it's original (present) orbit > with a convenient explanation for all the large number of planets > they encountered. and from Alan Greig <CCD-ARG%dct@ucl-cs.arpa>: > Although the TV series never really did give a credible explanation for > the speed with which they seemed to wander all over the universe, there > was an associated book which told a complete story from the moons blasting > out of orbit right through to an eventual return to earth many tens of years > later. I can't recall the author but the atmosphere created by the book and > the far better scientific accuracy was way above anything the TV series ever > managed. I won't spoil the ending though for those who may want to read it. I don't know what these guys have been reading, but I don't think it was Space: 1999, unless it was a British publication that never made it over here. I don't think that's likely because I have gotten things directly from British dealers at conventions. If such a book does exist, I'd love to find it. The show was novelized and some extra tie-in novels were written between the two seasons. I have all of the following books and I checked them over last weekend, none have the plot described above. The Making of Space: 1999 by Tim Heald Series 1 novelizations: (all episodes except Earthbound, these weren't done as short stories, like the Star Trek episode novelizations, but add connections from one episode to the next) 1. Breakaway - E. C. Tubb Breakaway A Matter of Life and Death A Ring Around the Moon The Black Sun 2. Moon Odyssey - John Rankine Alpha Child The Last Sunset Voyager's Return Another Time, Another Place 3. The Space Guardians - Brain Ball Missing Link Force of Life Guardian of Piri 4. Collision Course - E. C. Tubb Collision Course Full Circle End of Eternity Death's Other Dominion 5. Lunar Attack - John Rankine War Games The Troubled Spirit The Last Enemy Space Brain 6. Astral Quest - John Rankine The Infernal Machine Mission of the Darians Dragon's Domain The Testament of Arkadia Original novels, all end with the moon continueing through space 7. Alien Seep - E. C. Tubb 8. Android Planet - John Rankine 9. Rogue Planet - E. C. Tubb 10. Phoenix of Megaron - John Rankine Series 2 noveliztions: (all episodes except The Taybor) all written by Michael Butterworth 1. Planets of Peril The Metamorph The AB Chrysalis The Rules of Luton New Adam, New Eve 2. Mind-Breaks of Space Brian the Brain The Mark of Archanon The Catacombs of the Moon One Moment of Humanity 3. The Space-Jackers Seed of Destruction A Matter of Balance The Exiles The Beta Cloud 4. The Psychomorph The Lambda Factor The Bringers of Wonder 5. The Time Fighters Space Warp Dorzak Devil's Planet The Seance Spector 6. The Edge of the Infinite All that Glisters Journey to Where The Dorcons The Immunity Syndrome - ended with the possibility that the Alphans stayed to settle this planet Mary Anne Espenshade ...!{allegra, seismo}!umcp-cs!aplvax!mae