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Troubled Star
An advanced alien race is considering our sun as a reference point on their star route, but must first determine if there are any intelligent life-forms in its solar system, since altering the sun would be fatal for all the system's life. The aliens seek to contact the most highly-regarded being on planet Earth, coming up with Dusty Britton of the Space Patrol. What they DON'T realize is that he's an actor, star of a hit sci-fi TV show! Egotistical Dusty quickly realizes that he must now play his TV role in real life in order to save the solar system from disaster. An excellent mix of space opera, humor, and suspense! (Goodreads)
- GenresScience Fiction
126 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1959
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George O. Smith
215 books11 followersGeorge Oliver Smith (April 9, 1911 - May 27, 1981) (also known as Wesley Long) was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author.
Smith was an active contributor to Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the 1940s. His collaboration with the magazine's editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. was interrupted when Campbell's first wife, Doña, left him in 1949 and married Smith.
Smith continued regularly publishing science fiction novels and stories until 1960. His output greatly diminished in the 1960s and 1970s when he had a job that required his undivided attention. He was given the First Fandom Hall of Fame award in 1980.
He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers.
Smith wrote mainly about outer space, with such works as Operation Interstellar (1950), Lost in Space (1959), and Troubled Star (1957).
He is remembered chiefly for his Venus Equilateral series of short stories about a communications station in outer space. The stories were collected in Venus Equilateral (1947), which was later expanded as The Complete Venus Equilateral (1976).
His novel The Fourth "R" (1959) - re-published as The Brain Machine (1968) - was a digression from his focus on outer space, and provides one of the more interesting examinations of a child prodigy in science fiction.
Smith was an active contributor to Astounding Science Fiction during the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the 1940s. His collaboration with the magazine's editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. was interrupted when Campbell's first wife, Doña, left him in 1949 and married Smith.
Smith continued regularly publishing science fiction novels and stories until 1960. His output greatly diminished in the 1960s and 1970s when he had a job that required his undivided attention. He was given the First Fandom Hall of Fame award in 1980.
He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers.
Smith wrote mainly about outer space, with such works as Operation Interstellar (1950), Lost in Space (1959), and Troubled Star (1957).
He is remembered chiefly for his Venus Equilateral series of short stories about a communications station in outer space. The stories were collected in Venus Equilateral (1947), which was later expanded as The Complete Venus Equilateral (1976).
His novel The Fourth "R" (1959) - re-published as The Brain Machine (1968) - was a digression from his focus on outer space, and provides one of the more interesting examinations of a child prodigy in science fiction.
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November 27, 2019
Gelesen als Die Sonnen-Ingenieure
Die Fremden wollen die Sonne in ein Blinkfeuer für die Navigation ihrer Raumschiffe verwandeln. Die Erde soll dazu in Stasis versetzt und verschoben werden. Die Menschheit würde damit für Jahrhunderte in ihrer Entwicklung gestoppt werden. Gibt es einen Ausweg aus dieser Situation?
Dusty Britton, ein Schauspieler, Kommandant und Held der terranischen Raumpatrouille in einer TV-Serie, wird zum realen Helden, nachdem drei Fremde, sogenannte Sonnen-Ingenieure, den Auftrag erhalten, die Sonne in ein kosmisches Blinkfeuer zu verwandeln.
Die später erschienenen The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy und Galaxy Quest – Planlos durchs Weltall lassen grüssen.
Die Fremden wollen die Sonne in ein Blinkfeuer für die Navigation ihrer Raumschiffe verwandeln. Die Erde soll dazu in Stasis versetzt und verschoben werden. Die Menschheit würde damit für Jahrhunderte in ihrer Entwicklung gestoppt werden. Gibt es einen Ausweg aus dieser Situation?
Dusty Britton, ein Schauspieler, Kommandant und Held der terranischen Raumpatrouille in einer TV-Serie, wird zum realen Helden, nachdem drei Fremde, sogenannte Sonnen-Ingenieure, den Auftrag erhalten, die Sonne in ein kosmisches Blinkfeuer zu verwandeln.
Die später erschienenen The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy und Galaxy Quest – Planlos durchs Weltall lassen grüssen.
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