Venturer Twelve 01 – 04 Series by Dan Morgan, John Kippax
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Overview: Dan Morgan (24 December 1925 – 4 November 2011) was an English science fiction writer and a professional guitarist, mainly active as a writer from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s. In addition to his fiction, he wrote two manuals relating to his musical profession.
John Kippax (1915-1974) was the pen name of English science fiction writer John Charles Hynam.
Hynam’s death put a premature end to the Venturer Twelve series, of which he and Morgan collaborated on the first three volumes while Hynam wrote the fourth by himself. Morgan did declare his intention to write a fifth volume, but he never did. The series was thus left at a permanent cliffhanger – ending with an ever-increasing threat posed to space-faring humanity by mysterious, malevolent aliens whose precise character is never clarified, and with the struggle gathering momentum just when the series was cut off. Many further adventures were clearly intended for the Venturer’s Captain, the tough macho Tom Bruce; his courageous, dedicated and sensitive Second in Command and former lover Helen Lindstrom; and their multi-racial crew. These seem doomed to remain unwritten. As noted by Morgan, the character of Admiral Junius Farragut Carter, Captain Bruce’s boss, was "Hynam’s own wryly conceived self-caricature".
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
01 A Thunder of Stars by Dan Morgan, John Kippax
In the dark of space lies a new dimension of fear…
The stars are no longer neutral and Mankind becomes aware that the skies are shared with an alien race.
United Earth and its colonies are protected by thinly spread starships or the space corps manned by such very qualified men and women as Tom Bruce of Venturer Twelve and Helen Lindstrom, his second-in-command.
In Space they had to play God.
And the worlds hated them for it.
02 Seed of Stars by Dan Morgan, John Kippax
The thinly-spread starships of the Space Corps were all the protection Earth’s galactic colonies had. Yet the colonies fought, lied and cheated, to win independence of even this slender thread of control.
Kepler III was one such colony. It was approaching its centenary. On the way was Venturer Twelve, Commander Tom Bruce, sent out to investigate and establish whether or not the colony was progressing sufficiently well to be freed and declared independent of the commercial company which had founded and financed it. And on Kepler, President Shanon Kido was dtermined the investigation would turn up nothing – absolutely nothing – to endanger that independence.
Even if it meant endangering the planet…
03 The Neutral Stars by Dan Morgan, John Kippax
United Earth Government couldn’t get the vast appropriations needed to commandeer an entire planet – necessary to experiment with the titanic forces that would be unleashed while doing research on a warp-drive.
And meanwhile, Venturer Twelve and her sister ships continued to protect Earth Sector as best they could, knowing the aliens must already have the drive.
But their worst enemy was right there on Earth.
04 Where No Stars Guide by John Kippax
‘The aliens have come from somewhere within the holes in space’
United Earth’s need for warp drive locked three people in bitter conflict…
Elsa Niebohr, who chose a Balomain planet for Excelsior Corporation’s research into sub-space travel…
Surgeon Lieutenant Creighton who needed Venturer Twelve to capture an alien being alive…
Commander Tom Bruce – on assignment to protect Balomain Four – who preferred his aliens dead.
The arrival in space of an enormous, shimmering, gold ball with its strange cargo brought problems for them all…
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