Overview
Jonga and Krull had a routine job in the solar system defence organisation. Week after week and year after year they checked the asteroids. 23rd century astronomy had accurately charted 2,812 of those miniature worlds, compared with the 1,539 that are known today. Suddenly a new asteroid appears, and a survey expedition under Squadron-leader Gregg Masterson, is sent out to investigate. They expedition fails to return, and when the watching asteroid observation corps make another anxious check, they find that the mysterious planetoid has disappeared as mysteriously as it came. A second expedition is launched under General Rotherson himself. An expedition that finds the wreckage of the survey ships, and the bodies of every man except Gregg Masterson. Where is the missing Squadron leader? Who is the terrible ageless asteroid man? So strong that he can control the destinies of a planet. What is the beautiful Princess Astra of Altain doing in the labyrinth below the surface of the asteroid?
Full Product Details
Author: R. L. Fanthorpe ,
Lionel Fanthorpe ,
Patricia Fanthorpe
Publisher: Wordcatcher Publishing
Imprint: Wordcatcher Publishing
Edition: 3rd New edition
ISBN: 9781789424393
ISBN 10: 1789424399
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 28 July 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Born in Dereham in Norfolk in 1935, Lionel was a journalist before moving into teaching. While working as the Further Education Tutor at Gamlingay Village College in Cambridgeshire, he was invited to become the Chief Industrial Training Executive for the Phoenix Timber Group of Companies. After a few years in industry, he returned to teaching, and lectured for Cambridge University's Board of Extra-Mural Studies. Over the years he has co-authored more than two hundred books with Patricia, many of them dealing with unsolved mysteries. He came to Cardiff in 1979 as Head of Glyn Derw Comprehensive High School in Ely. He took early retirement from there in 1989 and worked as a lecturer, writer, radio and TV broadcaster and management consultant in partnership with his wife Patricia. They celebrated their Diamond Wedding in 2017 and have two daughters and two grandchildren. Patricia was born in Beetley in Norfolk in 1938 and married Lionel in 1957. Her hobbies are folk-dancing and watching tennis and snooker. She also likes watching Science Fiction on TV. She enjoys investigating unsolved mysteries and co-authors Lionel's books about them. She is very family orientated and loves to spend time with Lionel, their daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren.
