The Last Disaster

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

First edition

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]

gollark: ???
gollark: It's weird how it went from "of course you're not being spied on constantly, what a ridiculous conspiracy theory" to "of course you're being spied on constantly, who cares".
gollark: It's the government agencies you don't know about which you should worry about most, if they existed, which they of course do not.
gollark: The NSA isn't secret, their operations are.
gollark: The NSA is constrained by law they vaguely follow to not spy on US citizens that much, so they just offload it to other allied countries.

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


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