Outpost of Jupiter

By Lester del Rey

Book Overview

Bob Wilson, a student of language science, is hurtling through space on the greatest spaceship ever built. Just before landing on a satellite of Jupiter, it is mysteriously hit.

On Ganymede, Bob and his biochemist father find their resourcefulness challenged by a deadly plague which threatens the population of the small colony. A little girl's strange tales of friendship with beings from Jupiter lead Bob to the real test of his interrupted studies: communication with alien Jovians, who have no language as humans know it.

Can Bob solve this problem, and can the colonists find an antidote for the plague? A suspenseful and engrossing tale of space exploration and colonization...and first contact with a truly alien race of beings!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479463876
• ISBN13: 9781479463879
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

His father's sudden illness strands the Wilsons on Ganymede

What would you do if your father suddenly falls ill? The question's rhetorical for the rest of us but for Bob Wilson, who was on his way back to Earth from Saturn, it's quite real. When he and his father are stranded on Ganymede, he's forced re-evaluate his life. He foregoes going to college to help the colonists. Does he make the right decision? I'm not saying. Read it yourself and find out.