Mr. Bass's Planetoid Explained

Mr. Bass's Planetoid
Author:Eleanor Cameron
Illustrator:Louis Darling
Country:United States
Language:English
Series:The Mushroom Planet Books
Genre:Science fiction Children's literature
Publisher:Little, Brown and Company
Pub Date:1958
Media Type:Print (Hardcover)
Pages:227
Preceded By:Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet
Followed By:A Mystery for Mr. Bass

Mr. Bass's Planetoid is a 1958 children's science fiction novel by Canadian author Eleanor Cameron. The novel follows The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (1954) and Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (1956). The book is illustrated by Louis Darling.

Plot introduction

The boys hunt for Prewytt Brumblydge, inventor of the Brumblitron, which is threatening to explode, destroying the Earth. This time, instead of journeying to Basidium, they fly to an airless rock named Lepton that orbits 1,000 miles above the Earth's surface. This novel introduces the fictional metal Brumblium, a greenish metal that shows as infragreen on a spectroscope and has twice the density of uranium.

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