Article-I.D.: aplvax.121
Posted: Thu Jun 27 16:43:00 1985
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From Bob Gray (bobg@cstvax.UUCP):
> There is a book (by E.C. TUBB, I think his name was, I can't remember
> the title) which tells a story made up of two episodes from the
> series and a story claimed to be a possible "Final episode".
> This was writen after the series had ended and explains what
> actually happened in the explosion.
> ...
> As I remember the moon was squeezed by the explosion and forced
> into a strange fourth-dimensional orbit. This is how it got out
> of the solar system so fast.
> The moon eventually ends up back in it's original (present) orbit
> with a convenient explanation for all the large number of planets
> they encountered.

and from Alan Greig :

> Although the TV series never really did give a credible explanation for
> the speed with which they seemed to wander all over the universe, there
> was an associated book which told a complete story from the moons blasting
> out of orbit right through to an eventual return to earth many tens of years
> later. I can't recall the author but the atmosphere created by the book and
> the far better scientific accuracy was way above anything the TV series ever
> managed. I won't spoil the ending though for those who may want to read it.

I don't know what these guys have been reading, but I don't think it was
Space: 1999, unless it was a British publication that never made it over
here.  I don't think that's likely because I have gotten things directly from
British dealers at conventions.  If such a book does exist, I'd love to find it.
The show was novelized and some extra tie-in novels were written between the
two seasons.  I have all of the following books and I checked them over last
weekend, none have the plot described above.

The Making of Space: 1999 by Tim Heald

Series 1 novelizations:		(all episodes except Earthbound, these weren't
				 done as short stories, like the Star Trek
				 episode novelizations, but add connections
				 from one episode to the next)
1. Breakaway - E. C. Tubb
	Breakaway
	A Matter of Life and Death
	A Ring Around the Moon
	The Black Sun
2. Moon Odyssey - John Rankine
	Alpha Child
	The Last Sunset
	Voyager's Return
	Another Time, Another Place
3. The Space Guardians - Brain Ball
	Missing Link
	Force of Life
	Guardian of Piri
4. Collision Course - E. C. Tubb
	Collision Course
	Full Circle
	End of Eternity
	Death's Other Dominion
5. Lunar Attack - John Rankine
	War Games
	The Troubled Spirit
	The Last Enemy
	Space Brain
6. Astral Quest - John Rankine
	The Infernal Machine
	Mission of the Darians
	Dragon's Domain
	The Testament of Arkadia

Original novels, all end with the moon continueing through space
7. Alien Seep - E. C. Tubb
8. Android Planet - John Rankine
9. Rogue Planet - E. C. Tubb
10. Phoenix of Megaron - John Rankine

Series 2 noveliztions:		(all episodes except The Taybor)
all written by Michael Butterworth
1. Planets of Peril
	The Metamorph
	The AB Chrysalis
	The Rules of Luton
	New Adam, New Eve
2. Mind-Breaks of Space
	Brian the Brain
	The Mark of Archanon
	The Catacombs of the Moon
	One Moment of Humanity
3. The Space-Jackers
	Seed of Destruction
	A Matter of Balance
	The Exiles
	The Beta Cloud
4. The Psychomorph
	The Lambda Factor
	The Bringers of Wonder
5. The Time Fighters
	Space Warp
	Dorzak
	Devil's Planet
	The Seance Spector
6. The Edge of the Infinite
	All that Glisters
	Journey to Where
	The Dorcons
	The Immunity Syndrome - ended with the possibility that the Alphans
				stayed to settle this planet

			Mary Anne Espenshade
			...!{allegra, seismo}!umcp-cs!aplvax!mae