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 Post subject: Book name-me-forget
PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 15:18 
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I remember reading a great book called Dolphin Island as a nipper at school (I was around 10-11 I think). Idly googling on a rainy day, it turns out it was by Arthur C. Clarke. Neat. I read it all really quickly and maybe even shed a tear at the end I enjoyed it so much.

But.... there was a different book I remember reading part (maybe all) of. I only remember vague details which I'm going to post up and see if anyone recognises it; like the name-that-tune style topics.

It was sci-fi lite sort of style. Like an adventure. Space travel.

The main characters were teens.

The key detail: They had a spaceship, made from (possibly) a hollowed out meteor. It was like a large snail-shell in it's design, like a large-ish spiral laid flat. The ship was quite fragile and crappy, they couldn't fight with it, only run away from trouble. I remember bits set in a kind of junk yard, finding bits for repair etc.

There were a few pictures in the book, but simple pen-drawing style.

Does this ring any bells with anyone?

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 15:22 
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Ooh I vaguely remember something like that too. Let-me-know-me-do when you find out.


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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 15:40 
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I have a feeling that I may have read the first book in a series (or planned, but canned), but of course cannot be sure without more details.

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 15:44 
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I remember this really quite well. No idea of title or author though.

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 15:46 
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I hope this turns out to be a dream you all had, or an experience you all shared in a past life. You could sell that to the BBC as one of their educational serials.

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
PostPosted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:07 
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I don't really have any more details with which to google, so at the moment i'm stuck. I'll ask on other forums and see (er, if anyone wants to post this on WoS that'd be cool).

I may have remembered some things wrongly. I enjoyed the book as a kid, although it may actually have been quite shitty.

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
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I have no idea, sorry.
I have another one though - it was a story in several volumes (aimed at teenagers, I think) about aliens invading earth - they had forcefields and lasers. They enslaved humanity to work in fields growing some weird alien stuff, and put mirrors around the earth to make the sunlight hotter and more red. Some of the humans escaped in an alien spacecraft and went to the secret human hidey space station in the red spot of jupiter. There were more volumes after that but I never got around to reading them.

Also - one about a chap with metal skeleton and a spaceship. The covers were all 50s Fallout-style cartoon drawings.

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
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Sounds vaguely like a book that might have been the inspiration for the Aquila kid's TV series?


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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
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Mr Chris wrote:
Also - one about a chap with metal skeleton and a spaceship. The covers were all 50s Fallout-style cartoon drawings.


Gnah! I know this one, too - but once again no titles or authors spring to mind.

This thread won't be allowed to sink to the bottom until answers are forthcoming.

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
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Craster wrote:
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Also - one about a chap with metal skeleton and a spaceship. The covers were all 50s Fallout-style cartoon drawings.


Gnah! I know this one, too - but once again no titles or authors spring to mind.

This thread won't be allowed to sink to the bottom until answers are forthcoming.


Annoyingly, despite putting "metal skeleton, spaceship" in google, it's not giving me the answer.

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
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Yeah, I tried that with "Kids Hollow Meteor".

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I'll ask on other forums and see (er, if anyone wants to post this on WoS that'd be cool).

I'll do it for £1. Alternatively, just post the question in a thread that's already there.

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Craster wrote:
Yeah, I tried that with "Kids Hollow Meteor".


I tried something along the lines of 'book hollow spiral meteor spaceship' and got "A spaceship made of stone and other stories" by feminist author Lisa Tuttle. I'm pretty sure it wasn't that.

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I'll do it for £1. Alternatively, just post the question in a thread that's already there.


OK, Ieft the money down the back of the sofa. You may have to dig about a little for it. Cheers.

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
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The first one might be something by Nicholas Fisk, I'm sure he did a kids-in-space series. Star Chasers, or something.

Metal-skeleton-bloke-and-spaceship - The Last Legionairre ones? Did he have a lady-alien-pterodactyl sidekick?


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Sir Taxalot wrote:
Craster wrote:
Yeah, I tried that with "Kids Hollow Meteor".

I tried something along the lines of 'book hollow spiral meteor spaceship' and got "A spaceship made of stone and other stories" by feminist author Lisa Tuttle. I'm pretty sure it wasn't that.

I got theories about the moon being a spaceship...

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Metal-skeleton-bloke-and-spaceship - The Last Legionairre ones? Did he have a lady-alien-pterodactyl sidekick?


Ding!

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
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Ding indeed. Now, the aliens invading earth one?

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The first one might be something by Nicholas Fisk, I'm sure he did a kids-in-space series. Star Chasers, or something.


Ding! Starstormers, it was.

Thread won.

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 Post subject: Re: Book name-me-forget
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swizpig wrote:
The first one might be something by Nicholas Fisk, I'm sure he did a kids-in-space series. Star Chasers, or something.


*quick google* Starstormers, they were called.

I have a feeling this could be the one I was looking for. The author's name sounds familiar.

**edit**

Yes! nice one, good sir. :hat:

As Craster said, thread won :D

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