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A weird green object has appeared in outer space!
Thrusting into our solar system from the great gulf beyond, the Green
Orb barely registers upon Earth-based instruments, its nature unknown.
But Tom begins to wonder if the uncanny wanderer is behind a series of
strange incidents -- a phony ghost that seems to come to life before
Tom's eyes, telephone calls received but never made, violent
interference with Tom's space-probing megascope, and even a phantom
apparition of the young inventor himself! A manned flyby of the Orb
ends in danger and mystery. To pierce the object's veil of secrecy, Tom
decides to send a fleet of robot drones, his Video Vikings, on a probe
mission, equipped with cameras to relay their findings to Tom's
remarkable new invention, the telejector, able to produce startling 3-D
images in midair.
The Green Orb does not reveal its secrets easily. First Tom and his
friend Bud must locate a little girl, key to communicating with the
Orb, before she is made to disappear as have a host of ESP-gifted
individuals, without explanation. It is only after a gantlet of
electrifying thrills that Tom is able at last to visit the space
phantom on its own terms -- to block the world cataclysm threatened by
its ceaseless approach.