title: Mission: Impractical (Dr. Who Series)
author: David A. McIntee
description: When daring criminal, Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilizations. This is a Doctor Who novel featuring the sixth Doctor and Frobisher.
zlib_text: BRIAN
  HERBERT
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  SIDNEY'S
  
  COSMOS
  ISBN-10:0-8439-5918-5
  ISBN-13:978-0-8439-5918-5
  
  SIDNEY MALLOY ALWAYS WANTED 
  TO BE A SPACE PATROL HERO.
  But Sidney has a hidden disability which would show up if 
  he took the Space Patrol physical. And in the AmFed society 
  in which he lives, anyone discovered to be imperfect is dis­
  carded. So Sidney performs inane tasks in a dull government 
  office 500 floors below ground level.
  Sidney’s worst fears are realized when an automatic bio­
  medical detector discovers his disability, and he is taken into 
  custody for future deportation into space.
  But at the same time, he begins hearing strange voices. 
  Alien beings have chosen him for an important assignment. 
  They influence a general to appoint him captain of a Space 
  Patrol ship. His mission... to destroy a comet of garbage on 
  a collision course with Earth!
  
  Other Cosmos Books
  Shadow Kingdoms, The Weird Works of Robert E.
  Howard, Volume One, by Robert E. Howard
  Fantasy: The Best of the Near, edited