- Science fiction, Space colonies, Space flight training, Fiction
Charged with insubordination, refusing to follow orders, and endangering the lives of others, a rebellious cadet is dismissed from the Goddard Space Academy and seeks to join the moon colony.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Lester del Rey
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 181
- Publisher
- Gregg Press, Ballantine Books, New American Library of Canada
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780839825180
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Lester del Rey was born Leonard Knapp in Saratoga, Minnesota, the son of poor sharecroppers of partly Spanish ancestry. His mother died shortly after his birth, and he managed to complete high school and two years at George Washington University before dropping out for economic reasons. He started publishing stories in pulp magazines in the late 1930s. He was closely associated Astounding Science Fiction, then the leading science fiction magazine. In 1935, his first wife was killed in a car accident. By 1947 he had written enough solid short fiction to generate his first book, the anthology And Some Were Human. In the 1950s, he was a leading science fiction writer. After marrying his second
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