Android Planet is an original novel and features characters from Season One of the television series.
Space: 1999 — Android PlanetFollowing the mind-staggering nuclear explosion which has sent the moon and its research station, Alpha deep into space, Commander Koenig and his dedicated group of scientists have kept the base going and survived crisis after crisis.
Now they find a planet suitable for human life and send a party down to investigate. But the planet has long since been taken over by a group of super androids, and Commander Koenig and his party are in danger both from them and the few humanoids who have survived conquest.
Publisher Orbit Format Paperback Publication Date 1976 Original Price 50p ISBN 0-8600-7903-1 Book Number 8 Country UK
Space: 1999 — Android Planet
Publisher Arthur Barker Ltd Format Hardback Publication Date 1976 Original Price £3.65 ISBN 0-213-16600-3 Country UK
Space: 1999 — Android Planet
Publisher Pocket Books Format Paperback Publication Date 1976 Original Price $1.50 ISBN 0-671-80706-4 Book Number 8 Country USA
General Notes
- John Rankine is a pen-name of Douglas Rankine Mason.
- Android Planet was the second of five original, English-language, Space: 1999 novels to be published in the 1970s. The final two books were Earthfall, which was only published in the UK, and which went back to the first episode of the television series before weaving a new story out of it; and Phoenix of Megaron, which was only published in the United States.
