Moon Base One - Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A., #4

Hugh Walters

Faber & Faber

1961

192 páginas

6h 24m

ISBN-13: 9780571061334

"Moon Base One / Outpost on the Moon" is a young adult science fiction novel, the fourth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of *U.N.E.X.A.* book series -- Preceded by Operation Columbus [aka] First On The Moon. Followed by Expedition Venus. '-' It was published in the UK by Faber in 1961. And in the US by Criterion Books, in 1962, under the title "Outpost on the Moon"."
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(*) United Nations EXploration Agency (UNEXA) -- First edition cover shows Chris Godfrey with friends Serge, Morrey and Tony in lunar mysterious grey mist!
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[Synopsis]: 'Thousands of young people are terminally ill as a result of the radiation produced by the lunar structures destroyed in *The Domes of Pico* [a.k.a. Menace from the Moon /1958,1959 -- Chris Godfrey Series, #2]: In an attempt to determine whether the fall-out from the domes can have a curative effect on the disease a joint East-West mission is planned under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations EXploration Agency (UNEXA). The mission is commanded by Chris Godfrey, accompanied by American, Morrison 'Morrey' Kant and Russian Serge Smyslov. The 'patient' will be Tony Hale, from Aston near Birmingham (who goes on to feature in the rest of the series). The mission starts well, but is soon in trouble when a supply rocket crashes'...'
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Base_One
http://unexa.org/walters/04moonba/index.html
http://petrona.typepad.com/petrona/2010/09/blast-off-at-woomera-and-other-novels-by-hugh-walters.html
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(*) Also from Faber & Faber (rapidly reaching the level of Britain's best and most persistent publisher of science fiction) is THE DOMES OF PICO by Hugh Walters (196 pp., 13/6), a sequel to BLAST OFF FROM WOOMERA which was published in 1957. Primarily a juvenile, it should not be overlooked by the adult reader. Mr. Walters has had much to contend with in writing a sequel to a story which was scened in the not-so-distant future, and which concerned Britain's first man-carrying rocket to go above the atmosphere. A string of assorted satellites and sputniki which didn't exist when he wrote the first book, for instance. Usually, efforts to write sequels to stories which history has by-passed are not too effective, but this time I think the author has managed extremely well, and the rather frantic and hectic re-writes which I am sure must have occurred are not obvious.
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http://nebulasf.atspace.com/KFS33.htm