World-Eater

''There''s something in the sky... something terrible!''

On the night of the great storm, a mysterious new planet suddently appears in the sky. Orbiting the sun between Mercury and Venus, the huge blue-grey sphere has scientists baffled as probes reveal its surface to be flat and bare and its interior liquid.

Eleven-year-old Orville, absorbed in witing for his favourite pigeon to hatch her first eg...