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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Resurrection of a venerable SF trope - Planet 4.5
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 20:33:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-07-02, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

>>So, there really *was* a planet 4.5, between Mars and Jupiter.
>>
>>An old tool in the SF authors toolbox can be used again.
>
> It's not that old.  Hogan used it.  Crap that was 1977.  Ok, it's old.

_Perry Rhodan_ used it before that (#265, 1966).

Edmond Hamilton used it even earlier in the Captain Future story
_The Lost World of Time_ (1941).

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de