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Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 15:18 ]
Post subject:  Book name-me-forget
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?

Ta :hat:
Author:  kalmar [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 15:22 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
Ooh I vaguely remember something like that too. Let-me-know-me-do when you find out.
Author:  Sir Taxalot [ 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.
Author:  Cras [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 15:44 ]
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I remember this really quite well. No idea of title or author though.
Author:  MrD [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 15:46 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
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.
Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:07 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
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.
Author:  MrChris [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:11 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
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.
Author:  GazChap [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:19 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
Sounds vaguely like a book that might have been the inspiration for the Aquila kid's TV series?
Author:  Cras [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:26 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
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.
Author:  MrChris [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:26 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
Craster wrote:
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.


Annoyingly, despite putting "metal skeleton, spaceship" in google, it's not giving me the answer.
Author:  Cras [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:28 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
Yeah, I tried that with "Kids Hollow Meteor".
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:31 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
Sir Taxalot wrote:
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.
Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:39 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
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.

Quote:
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.
Author:  swizpig [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:40 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
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?
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:43 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
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...
Author:  Cras [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:44 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
swizpig wrote:
Metal-skeleton-bloke-and-spaceship - The Last Legionairre ones? Did he have a lady-alien-pterodactyl sidekick?


Ding!
Author:  MrChris [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:45 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
Ding indeed. Now, the aliens invading earth one?
Author:  Cras [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:45 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
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.


Ding! Starstormers, it was.

Thread won.
Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:54 ]
Post subject:  Re: Book name-me-forget
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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