The Catacombs The Merchandise Guide
Novelisations: Turkey
Compiled by Martin Willey

Milliyet Yayin Ltd

Uzay 1999

Turkey. Published August 1976. 15 Turkish lira. 172 pages. Translated by Atilla Celâl Bayar

A reprint of EC Tubb's novel Breakaway as "Dünyadan Kopuş" (Breakaway from Earth). It is listed as book #3, but it is just #3 of some imprint of the publisher (for this imprint, Book #1 is a Bermuda Triangle book by Charles Berlitz).

It uses the original cover design from the UK Orbit paperback

Uzay 1999 back cover

Bu çok ilginç kitabı televizyonda ilgiyle izlediğimiz UZAY 1999, un dünyadan kopuş adlı serüveni oluşturmakta...
Bir patlama sonucu yörüngesinden ayrılan Ay üssü Alfa, nın mürettebatıyla birlıkte bilinmeyene doğru soluk kesici yolculuğu...

SPACE 1999, which is watched with much interest on television, now forms this very interesting book in the adventure "Breakaway from Earth"...
Moonbase Alpha, which has left its orbit as a result of an explosion, is on a breathtaking journey to the unknown with its crew ...

page 5

The first page of the Turkish translation contains an unfortunate typo. The original English text reads: "A day to be remembered. September 9th, 1999 - the day he resumed command." In the Turkish version, Koenig resumes command on 9 September 1919...


Thanks to Patrick Zimmerman