K9 and the Missing Planet (novel)

K9 and the Missing Planet was a novel published by Sparrow Books. It was written by David Martin.

Publisher's summary
An entire planet vanishes — a planet that was owned by Tellac Inc., a galactic company that turns whole worlds into mines and factories for their own profit. K9 is sent to find the missing planet. He finds instead a new universe and a very strange new breed of men. ..

Plot
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Characters

 * K9 Mark I

Worldbuilding

 * K9 encounters antelope, beetles, bison, butterflies, giraffe, pygmy hippos, zebras, and other Earth creatures.
 * K9 continues to pilot the vessel K-NEL.

Audio release

 * A reading of the story was released as an audiobook on the The Adventures of K9 audio CD read by John Leeson. The audio CD was published by Explore Multimedia. It also included the audio stories K9 and the Time Trap, K9 and the Beasts of Vega and K9 and the Zeta Rescue, plus a mulitmedia section with a video interview with John Leeson. The stories were also available as a MP3 download.

Continuity

 * Earth is known as Tellus in this far future; the planet would also be given another name, Ravolox, in TV: The Mysterious Planet.