Books with title PLANET OF LOST THINGS

This is what the boy is told:- He woke up on planet Trucon, inside of a fence line he shouldn't have been able to cross. - He has an annirad blaster wound to the back of his head. - He has no memory.- He is now under the protection of a mysterious benefactor. - His name is Chase Garrety. This is what Chase Garrety knows:- He has a message: "Guide the star."- Time is running out.

What will they find? Can they survive? Will they ever come home?‘Absorbing Science fiction’ – Kirkus ReviewsSixteen year old Jeremy Grant, born in Australia, comes to live with his uncle Dr. Lachlan McKinnon in Inverard, Scotland, following the sudden death of his parents. On his arrival, Janet Campbell, his uncle’s pretty secretary, also a science student, meets him at the train station and Jeremy takes an instant liking to her.On their journey to Jeremy’s uncle’s house, Janet gives him an overview of the inhabitants. Jeremy is fascinated to learn that there is a deep secret guarded beyond the electric fence at his uncle’s residence. Jeremy spends his first night in silence. With his uncle too busy to pay much attention to him, he has his evening meal alone, with just the friendly cook, Miss Smith, as intermittent company. The silence is shattered by something that sounds like the wail of a banshee … a long-drawn, piercing wail …Over the next few days, Jeremy learns his uncle has built a spaceship, one of a kind, rivalled only by a European called Hermanoff. McKinnon is aware that Hermanoff may have planted a spy within his team of workmen and, with only a few days to go until launch, he becomes aware of potential sabotage attempts. With Jeremy’s help, McKinnon must strive to keep his work secret and safe.McKinnon soon realises his nephew is no longer a young boy and extends his invitation of travelling to new frontiers to Jeremy. Beyond excited at the prospect of a new discovery, Jeremy does all he can to ensure he is knowledgeable about spaceflight. Shadowing Janet, he soon becomes familiar with the mechanics of the spaceship. With the launch imminent, a certain fear amongst the travellers takes over the household. Will they reach their destination? The mythic planet Hesikos…What will they find there? … Can they survive? … Will they ever come home?The Lost Planet is a thrilling science fiction adventure tale, filled with trials and tribulations, wonder and calamity, as Jeremy, McKinnon and company endeavour to make their voyage into the great unknown.Praise:‘Absorbing Science fiction’ – Kirkus ReviewsAngus MacVicar was an accomplished Scottish author, screenwriter and playwright who published work in a variety of genres. Earlier in his career he was known for his crime thrillers and autobiographies, but his early writing was interrupted by his service as a captain in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. As a result, most of his juvenile science fiction was not published until after World War II. It was then that his ‘Lost Planet’ series became extremely popular, with MacVicar himself adapting the stories as TV and radio serials.

A new frontier...In this thrilling follow up to Angus MacVicar’s THE LOST PLANET, we rejoin our narrator Jeremy, his uncle Lachlan, Janet, Spike, Madge and Asa on their return journey to The Lost Planet of Hesikos. Jeremy and his friends must get Asa back to her father before the menacing Herr Schenke comes to steal the Electronome from the Hesikians. The Electronome is a powerful device which can send thoughts to distant places, and with it under his control, Schenke plans to harness its powers for evil, waging war on the entire galaxy.But the people of Hesikos are a peaceful people, and they have neither the weapons nor the malice to take on Schenke and his men. It’s up to Uncle Lachlan and his team to come up with a plan to defeat their enemy, or, at least, to hold them off until Winter comes – in only ten days time. Asa’s father, Solveg, is tempted to give up the Electronome to maintain his people’s peaceful way of life, but doing so would put planet Earth, and his friends, in great danger. Solveg faces the ultimate problem: protect his people, or stand up in resistance to Herr Schenke.Will Uncle Lachlan’s brilliant scientific mind be enough to fend off Schenke’s advances? Or will he and his team have to adopt the peaceful Hesikian way of life to find a solution? SECRET OF THE LOST PLANET is a suspenseful science fiction adventure tale set around the mysterious world of Hesikos. Praise for Angus MacVicar:‘Absorbing science fiction’ Kirkus ReviewsAngus MacVicar was an accomplished Scottish author, screenwriter and playwright who published work in a variety of genres. Earlier in his career he was known for his crime thrillers and autobiography, but his early writing was interrupted by his service as a captain in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, which meant that most of his juvenile science fiction was not published until after World War II. It was then that his ‘Lost Planet’ series became extremely popular, with MacVicar himself adapting the stories as TV and radio serials.

This is what the boy is told:- He woke up on planet Trucon, inside of a fence line he shouldn't have been able to cross. - He has an annirad blaster wound to the back of his head. - He has no memory.- He is now under the protection of a mysterious benefactor. - His name is Chase Garrety. This is what Chase Garrety knows:- He has a message: "Guide the star."- Time is running out.

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strange reflection of his own -- populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book, The Book of Lost Things. Taking readers on a vivid journey through the loss of innocence into adulthood and beyond, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly tells a dark and compelling tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.