Space: 1999 Books

Strap into your Moon Ship and prepare for a trip to an alternate universe! Gathered here for the first time are the original stories written in the early days of production on the internationally acclaimed television series SPACE: 1999. Uncover the differences between Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s original story Zero G , George Bellak’s first draft of The Void Ahead and Christopher Penfold’s uncredited shooting script Turning Point . Each of these tales show the evolution of the pilot episode with scenes and characters that never made it to the screen. Wonder at a tale that was NEVER filmed where the Alpha People, desperate to migrate to a new home, instigate a conflict between two alien races. Also included are Christopher Penfold’s original storylines for Guardian of Piri and Dragon’s Domain , an adaption of Keith Miles’s early draft for All That Glisters and read how Art Wallace (Dark Shadows) originally envisioned the episode that became Matter of Life and Death . Discover how SPACE: 1999 might have been had they gone ‘Maybe There?’

Adrift in deep space, Commander John Koenig and the people of Moonbase Alpha face an uncertain fate, when a planet-killing alien weapon at the heart of a sinister cloud diverts their lost Moon on to a fatal trajectory. As each moment brings the Moon closer to total obliteration, Koenig leads a desperate mission into the unknown to save all life on Alpha. Does hope lie among a rag-tag colony of refugees hiding in the shadow of devastation? Or can the Alphans find a path into the heart of the war machine and end its destructive rampage? With time running out, the answer will mean the difference between survival...or annihilation.