The Merchandise Guide
Annual 1975

mare task! In unbearable tension, pilots panic. Craft crash and burn among the white-hot caps of the waste shafts!    And then . . .    Abort! Abort mission! Return to docking base at once!"    All hell breaks loose as the tubes erupt! The violence of the continuous, concussive blasts turns Main Mission into a sham- bles! Building on the perimeter of the Moonbase complex topple and explode, and then comes the

gigantic upheaval that literally blows one huge portion of the moon itself to atoms!    Only a miracle prevents Moon- base Alpha from being wiped out, together with its entire personnel. And only a miracle prevents the remaining part of the moon, upon which it stands, from disintegrat- ing. And yet that same miracle throws Koenig and the other survivors of the frightful disaster into the possibility of peril more chilling than anything they could

ever have dreamed of. The peril of the unknown!    No more are they concerned with the vagaries of an asteroid withing their Solar System . . . for at one stroke, with the Moon thrown clear out of Earth's orbit, they have become wanderers themselves . . . hurtling on an unstoppable course through the void of space--condemned,per- haps, to remain prisoners on their errant base until eternity!

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