The Last Disaster

First edition

The Last Disaster is a juvenile science fiction novel, the eighteenth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1978

Plot summary

The Moon's orbit suddenly starts to decay for reasons unknown; discovered when a solar eclipse arrives a few minutes early. The only hope of averting imminent disaster is an experimental anti-gravity device devised by an eccentric, elderly Welsh professor, who disillusioned with mankind, refuses to help...

Reception

Norman Culpan in the School Librarian stated ' Simplifications... are acceptable for ten- to twelve-year-olds, since the overall picture is valid given the premises from which the story begins' while Brian Stableford was more critical saying 'Anyone but a moron will notice immediately that this is a non-starter.' and 'Hugh Walters ..... obviously knows no better, but it is hard to explain why the editor who accepted this book is .... a manifest cretin. Perhaps they just don't care.'^[1]

References

↑ "The Last Disaster". unexa.org. Retrieved 1 March 2015.

External links

The Last Disaster page

Hugh Walters's U.N.E.X.A series

U.N.E.X.A. series	Blast Off at Woomera (1957) The Domes of Pico (1958) Operation Columbus (1959) Moon Base One (1960) Expedition Venus (1962) Destination Mars (1963) Terror by Satellite (1964) Journey to Jupiter (1965) Mission to Mercury (1965) Spaceship to Saturn (1967) The Mohole Mystery (1968) Nearly Neptune (1969) First Contact? (1971) Passage to Pluto (1973) Tony Hale, Space Detective (1973) Murder on Mars (1975) The Caves of Drach (1978) The Last Disaster (1978) The Blue Aura (1979) The Dark Triangle (1979) The Glass Men (unpublished)

Boy Astronaut	Boy Astronaut (1977) First Family on the Moon (1979) School on the Moon (1981)

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