John Rankine

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1975
  • Latest Book:
    December 2012
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Space: 1999

1999 Moon Odyssey (Aug-1975)
Astral Quest (Mar-1976)
Android Planet (Aug-1976)
Lunar Attack (Feb-1978)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • 1999 Moon Odyssey

    Space: 1999

  • Astral Quest

    Space: 1999

  • Android Planet

    Space: 1999

  • Lunar Attack

    Space: 1999

  • The Star of Hesiock

    Sam Shepherd, minding his own business, with his car locked on the freeway safety strip, was a surprised man when he saw Jean Quale draped like a wet sack over a five barred gate. Stopping to check out what she was up to, put his feet on a path litte...

  • Operation Umanaq

    After near bisection at the delicate hand of his ex-girlfriend and an all-stations call from the head of his own security unit labelling him an outlaw, Mark Chevron was a two-time loser. But despite everyone and everything being against him, he did h...

  • Binary Z

    F. S. Hartley was making the best of a bad job. The rebuilding programme at his school was drawing on all his skills in crisis management. Today, the digger had just cut the main power line--again, the School Inspector was threatening the whole futur...

  • Never the Same Door

    A man does not step into the same river twice. He never goes through the same door. To Kurt Yardley, this is amply borne out by the train of circumstance which follows the forced landing of his freighter Charib on the bleakly inhospitable plains of a...

  • The Weisman Experiment

    To Prosper Kanes the resurrection of interest in the Weisman Experiment, long suppressed officially by the Federal Government, was merely a whim of the Chairman--a routine chore of investigation in the memory banks of his computer. Once convinced of ...



  • The Bromius Phenomenon

    Senior Controller Dag Fletcher was involved as soon as Interstellar Two Nine disappeared in the gravisphere of Bromius. There must have been more to the loss of the starship than navigational error or mechanical failure. An ethnological mission coul...

  • The Fingalnan Conspiracy

    Returning from an I.G.O mission with his co-pilot critically injured, Sam York had got this far in his battered Interceptor. The last thing he needed was a close call on planetfall with a merchant ship - especially one captained by a former service r...

  • The Fletcher Chronicles

    In 'The Fletcher Chronicles' we follow Dag Fletcher's extraordinary career in a collection of short stories. As Controller and trouble-shooter for European Space. Through his six year military stint with the Inter Galactic Organisation. His rise to C...

  • Forgotten Rocket

    Caster was a typical city of the age. Its people were inoculated every year with U4--a drug which prevented them from asking the questions which ought to be asked. Clint Pearson had worked out a system for missing the inoculation. Only he knew that t...

  • Interstellar Two Five

    Dag Fletcher's first trip back with European Space was not going well. His six year military stint with I.G.O. had taught him that there were no simple missions. This just confirmed it. It was supposed to have been a straight-forward freight run--to ...

  • Last Shuttle to Planet Earth

    Seen from far enough off, a shanty town of flattened kerosene tins and mud daub can appear like some glittering Shangri-la. An observer at the Met Station of Earth's moon, if there was any hardy soul still batting on that ash heap, would see the spr...

  • Moons of Triopus

    In opposing the Triopus project, Grant Kirby was one by himself. Powerful commercial and political lobbies saw him as a threat and wanted him silenced. Was there in fact, a menace in the green planet or was he rationalizing his own growing disillusio...

  • One is One

    Senior Controller Dag Fletcher was beginning to feel very angry with the whole pointless business. What had begun as a commercial and training flight aboard the old I.G.O. corvette Interstellar X had gathered such complications to itself that the mis...

  • The Plantos Affair

    Captain Dag Fletcher was about to try out his diplomatic skills. After the recent I.G.O.-O.G.A. confrontation, European Space had been given back their company office on Fingalna and he had the tricky task of smoothing the way for a full return. Then...

  • The Ring of Garamas

    Dag Fletcher, seconded from European Space Corporation to do his regulation six year military stint for the Inter Galactic Organization, was regarded as one of the best corvette commanders around. First choice for the difficult and bizarre missions, ...



  • The Thorburn Enterprise

    Commander Kurt Foreman of the I.G.O. frigate Phalarope felt he had been lumbered with a nursemaid mission to keep an eye on a team of sociologists who were all set for an investigative visit to a remote planet in O.G.A. space. The sponsor of the trip...

  • The Vort Programme

    Robert Cain had no idea why he had been sent to enrol at Picton Polytech, but when a blue and yellow auto car dropped eight feet and nearly crushed him out of existence, he knew there was more to it than just a crash course in The Science of Mental L...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Rankine has published 21 books.

John Rankine does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Forgotten Rocket, was published in December 2012.

The first book by John Rankine, 1999 Moon Odyssey, was published in August 1975.

Yes. John Rankine has 1 series.
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