Because the effect is happening all over the world, people begin blaming the comet.Īs the disaster becomes progressively more serious, Ken and his friends in the high school's science club prepare to study samples of the fused metal at the local college, where Ken's father teaches chemistry, and to try to get a sample of what the comet is putting into Earth's atmosphere.
Soon all machinery is seizing up, its moving parts cold welded to each other. The next day almost all of the cars in Mayfield and other cities across the country have overheated and then refused to start. For the next four months Earth will float within the comet's tail and on the first night of that sojourn Ken's car and others begin to have problems with overheating. In the town of Mayfield high-school senior Ken Maddox is among the people fascinated by a giant comet whose path is just grazing Earth's orbit. That element has a great affinity for metal surfaces and it weakens their surface tension, thereby enabling rapidly moving parts to cold weld themselves into solid rigidity. It consists of a colloid, analogous to smoke, that incorporates an unknown transuranic element. The menace in this story consists of dust from the tail of a comet. In this story, as in Son of the Stars, the protagonist has a ham radio and a small observatory with a telescope he built himself. The typical protagonist in these books was a boy in his late teens who was proficient in the art of electronics, a hobby that was easily available to the readers. This is one of the thirty-five juvenile novels that comprise the Winston Science Fiction set, which novels were published in the 1950s for a readership of teen-aged boys. It was initially published in 1958 by the John C. The Year When Stardust Fell is a science fiction novel written by Raymond F.
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