FIFTH PLANET

The year is 2087. The two great power blocs still face each other, with Britain having adopted the political role formerly occupied by Switzerland.

For seventy-five years the world has known of the approach of another solar system which will pass between our sun and its outermost planets. The sun of the other solar system is named Helios by the astronomers, and it too is found to have planets. Its fifth planet, Achilles, is the one most similar to our earth; and rival rocketship expeditions are launched by the Euro-American and Communist blocs to explore this transient neighbor...

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