Space Platform

Space Platform

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author Murray Leinster
Cover artist Malcolm Smith
Country United States
Language English
Series Joe Kenmore
Genre Young adult science fiction novel
Publisher Shasta Publishers
Publication date
1953
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 223
OCLC 1953791
Followed by Space Tug

Space Platform is a young adult science fiction novel by author Murray Leinster. It was published in 1953 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the first novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series.

Plot introduction

The novel concerns the sabotage of attempts to place a platform in Earth orbit.

Reception

P. Schuyler Miller reported the novel was marked by "the fastest kind of action" and "the feeling of technical authenticity."[1]

Publication history

References

  1. "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, November 1954, p.144


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