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Name: Stand by for Mars!

Author: Carey Rockwell
Year: 1952
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Science fiction, Young adult

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9781406839609
1406839604

When we hear a work has been written by person or persons unknown under a house pseudonym, was part of a series that ran simultaneously in the newspaper comics, on TV, on radio, and in cheesy-looking off-size paperback books, we feel safe we can assume that the content will be not just forgettable, but something we'll be better off forgetting. But work made for hire isn't always so awful, actually, or it didn't used to be, anyway. And in the case of the book you hold in your hands -- first in the Tom Corbett series by Carey Rockwell (whoever he was in real life) -- this book is really pretty damned neat. It's the tale of three young men who join the Solar Guard to serve as Space Cadets (yes, really! That's what the book calls them). It tells of the challenges that face them, and the way they triumph over adversity. Neat stuff! Read it now!

This book is part of the "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Sabotage in Space"
First published in 1955
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"Danger in Deep Space"
First published in 1953
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"The Space Pioneers"
First published in 1953
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