The Psychomorph

Space: 1999 Year 2 #4

by Michael Butterworth

AMOEBA OF ILLUSION

Know your enemy to defeat him is an important battle rule, but now the Alphans must fight an adversary they cannot see -- a million-mile wide space amoeba that is struggling to stay alive. To get the energy it needs to revitalize its dying tissues, the organism must find a new source of energy. Shapeless, invisible but incredibly ingenious, it surrounds the Moon Base and invades it through its most vulnerable the minds of its inhabitants. To weak to act forcibly, it deludes the Alphans into initiating their own destruction.

Contains the episodes "The Lambda Factor", and "The Bringers of Wonder"

Genres: Science Fiction

Unknown Binding

First published June 1, 1977

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Space 1999 was a not-really-very-good television series fifty or so years ago and the second season wasn't as good as the first. We watched it because there was no other sf on television, and it often looked cool. A variety of authors of the time did novelizations of the first season in ten volumes, and Michael Butterworth wrote adaptations of the 24 second season episodes in a six-volume series. There's nothing especially noteworthy about most of them; they vary in quality as did the scripts upon which they were based. The Moon zips about like a cosmic pinball... what? The episodes in this fourth one were a two-part story by Terence Feely called The Bringers of Wonder (which Butterworth combined into a single package), and The Lambda Factor by Terrance Dicks, a name well-known to Doctor Who fans. The million-mile-wide invisible space amoeba was a pretty cool concept. Anyway, Space 1999... a brief nostalgic visit to nearly forgotten television.

[4cats · Rating 4 out of 5]

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