“No Dawn and No Horizon” by A. J. Merak (aka, John Glasby). London: John Spencer & Co./Badger Books SF-16 (1959). Cover Art by Ed Blandford.
“The planets conquered, Man turned towards the stars – to the alien worlds of Alpha Centauri.”
From the back cover:
Interplanetary travel was an established fact. Bases had been set up on the Moon, Mars and even on far-away Pluto. But that was as far as Man could go. Beyond the Frozen Planet lay an immeasurable gulf of light-years which it would take a lifetime to cross.
Not until the interstellar drive was discovered, was it possible for a ship to be sent to Alpha Centauri in the search for new planets suitable for colonization by the human race.
This is an imaginative novel of the ill-assorted crew of this first starship to land on a new planet in a new system. Leaving their parent ship in a closed orbit, they went down onto the planet, where their only pinnace cracked up on landing!
Then a party of non-humans show up, claiming to be the inhabitants of the planet. But it is soon apparent that they are something more than that . . .
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Badger Books were published between 1959 and 1967 in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction. In common with other “pulp” or mass-market publishers of the time, Badger Books focused on quantity rather than quality. A new title in each of the major genres appeared each month, generally written to tight deadlines by low-paid authors. One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its output was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms). John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories). [Wikipedia]
“No Dawn and No Horizon” by A. J. Merak (aka, John Glasby). London: John Spencer & Co./Badger Books SF-16 (1959). Cover Art by Ed Blandford.
“The planets conquered, Man turned towards the stars – to the alien worlds of Alpha Centauri.”
From the back cover:
Interplanetary travel was an established fact. Bases had been set up on the Moon, Mars and even on far-away Pluto. But that was as far as Man could go. Beyond the Frozen Planet lay an immeasurable gulf of light-years which it would take a lifetime to cross.
Not until the interstellar drive was discovered, was it possible for a ship to be sent to Alpha Centauri in the search for new planets suitable for colonization by the human race.
This is an imaginative novel of the ill-assorted crew of this first starship to land on a new planet in a new system. Leaving their parent ship in a closed orbit, they went down onto the planet, where their only pinnace cracked up on landing!
Then a party of non-humans show up, claiming to be the inhabitants of the planet. But it is soon apparent that they are something more than that . . .
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Badger Books were published between 1959 and 1967 in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction. In common with other “pulp” or mass-market publishers of the time, Badger Books focused on quantity rather than quality. A new title in each of the major genres appeared each month, generally written to tight deadlines by low-paid authors. One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its output was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms). John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories). [Wikipedia]