The Fatal Fire

by Kenneth Bulmer

"Mytilene," he told them, is a pleasure world. Or, rather, I should say worlds. You can fly from any planet to any other in the atmosphere.

"The whole ball, which is much larger than Jupiter, is held together by electro-magnetic forces created and maintained by the machines and the robot-brains on the centre planet - which spins of itself, but does not move within the gaseous envelope..."

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Henry Kenneth Bulmer
aka:
Alan Burt Akers
Ken Blake
Ernest Corley
Arthur Frazier
Adam Hardy
Philip Kent
Bruno Krauss
Neil Langholm
Karl Maras
Manning Norvil
Charles R. Pike
Andrew Quiller
Richard Silver
Tully Zetford

Reviews

[Robert Hepple · Rating 3 out of 5]

First published in book form in 1960, 'The Fatal Fire' was previously serialised in 'New Worlds'. The story is a routine SF thriller by an accomplished writer, with highly inventive plot and background, though somewhat spoilt by its rushed ending suggestive of wrapping the tale up to meet a story-length criteria perhaps.