| Mach 1: A Story of Planet Ionus | |
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Cover of Terror on Planet Ionus |
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| Author(s) | Allen A. Adler |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Cudahy |
| Publication date | 1957 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 212 pp |
Mach 1: A Story of Planet Ionus is a 1957 science fiction novel by Allen A. Adler. A paperback version was published in 1966 by Paperback Library with the alternate title Terror on Planet Ionus.
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While testing an experimental warship, the "Mach 1", a human pilot and his companion are kidnapped into space by aliens from the planet Ionus, which turns out to be a moon of Saturn. There, they confront an oversized monster named Karkong who is menacing the Ionians. Karkong follows them back to Earth. Chaos ensues.
Damon Knight wrote of the novel:[1]
This is no novel: it is half-heartedly "novelized" screen story. The blank-faced characters stand up and speak their lines woodenly, without any perceptible motivation; of characterization, explanation, depth of any kind there is none...[the book is] so bad that ordinary epithets will not do. It is incredibly, stupidly, loathsomely bad... The style is pretentious, ignorant and vulgar.