Maldek: The Lost Planet Between Mars and Jupiter: Esoteric, Scientific, Fictional Histories of Maldek, Phaeton, Tiamat, other names Fifth

A world once existed where the asteroid belt now sits. Something terrible happened there. And the survivors, according to a remarkably consistent body of channeled material, are walking around on Earth today. This is the story of Maldek. From George King's Aetherius transmissions of the 1950s to the Ra material of the 1980s to a landmark 2026 episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the destroyed fifth planet has haunted the human imagination for over two hundred years. This book brings the full record together for the first time: the channeled sources on their own terms, the mainstream science of what could and could not have happened between Mars and Jupiter, and the two-century history of the lost world in popular fiction. Three parts. Three approaches. One extraordinary story. Part One reports what the channeled sources actually say, source by source, without advocacy or dismissal. Part Two walks through the astronomical conversation from Titius-Bode through Le Verrier and Einstein to the modern Grand Tack scenario. Part Three traces Maldek in popular fiction from Victorian newspaper serials to the Golden Age of pulp to modern Star Trek. Whatever Maldek was, whatever became of it, its story continues to compel readers, writers, viewers, and dreamers. If you have ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what might once have been there, this book was written for you. A tenth-anniversary release from Maldek House.