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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]

Plot introduction

The novel concerns the problems of the running of a space station.

Publication history

Sources

. Jack L. Chalker . Mark Owings . The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 . Westminster, MD and Baltimore . Mirage Press, Ltd.. 594 . 1998.

. John Clute . Peter Nicholls . Peter Nicholls (writer) . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . New York. . 708 . 1995. 0-312-13486-X. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction .

. Donald H. Tuck . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy . Chicago . . 244 . 1974. 0-911682-20-1.

Notes and References

  1. "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1954, p.100
  2. "Recommended Reading," F&SF, June 1954, p.72.
  3. "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, November 1954, p.144