| Space Tug | |
| Author: | Murray Leinster |
| Cover Artist: | Malcolm Smith |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Joe Kenmore |
| Genre: | Young adult science fiction novel |
| Release Date: | 1953 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages: | 223 |
| Oclc: | 6570191 |
| Preceded By: | Space Platform |
| Followed By: | City on the Moon |
Space Tug 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 second novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series. Groff Conklin gave it a mixed review in Galaxy, noting that it held "plenty of excitement though not much maturity."[1] Boucher and McComas preferred it to the series's initial volume, but still found it "quite a notch below ... Leinster's adult work."[2] P. Schuyler Miller reported the novel was marked by "the fastest kind of action" and "the feeling of technical authenticity."[3]
The novel concerns the problems of the running of a space station.
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