num_pages: 192
description: Issued concurrently with the Putnam American edition. The "Dag Hammarskjold" takes off from Australia for the new human settlement on Mars. Planet Earth is being eaten away by uncontrollable pollution, starvation and disease. This is the last spaceship, its passengers the last people on earth with any hope. Cooper was an atheist and an individualist. His science fiction often depicts unconventional heroes facing unfamiliar and remote environments.
language: English
title: The Tenth Planet
titlecomplete: The Tenth Planet (U.K.)
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy
ratings_count: 174
places: Sol's Tenth Planet
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton