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Space Tug
Murray Leinster
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Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank. In desperation he turned toward Haney. “My God, we’ve been locked out!”
Through the transparent domes of their space helmets, Joe could see a look of horror and disbelief pass across Haney’s face. But it was true! Joe and his crew were locked out of the Space Platform.
Four thousand miles below circled the Earth. Under Joe’s feet rested the solid steel hull of his home in outer space. But without tools there was no hope of getting back inside. Joe looked at his oxygen meter. It registered thirty minutes to live.
Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank. In desperation he turned toward Haney. “My God, we’ve been locked out!”
Through the transparent domes of their space helmets, Joe could see a look of horror and disbelief pass across Haney’s face. But it was true! Joe and his crew were locked out of the Space Platform.
Four thousand miles below circled the Earth. Under Joe’s feet rested the solid steel hull of his home in outer space. But without tools there was no hope of getting back inside. Joe looked at his oxygen meter. It registered thirty minutes to live.
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The voice from the Platform said: "We have picked something up. There are four rockets headed out from near the sunset-line in the Pacific. Assuming solid-fuel rockets like we used and you used, they are on a collision course."
"Are you doing anything about them?" asked Joe absurdly.
The voice said caustically: "Unfortunately, we've nothing to do anything with." It paused. "You, of course, can use the landing-rockets you still possess. If you fire them immediately, you will pass our scheduled meeting-place some hundreds of miles ahead of us. You will go on out to space. You may set up an orbit forty-five hundred or even five thousand miles out, and wait there for rescue."
Joe said briefly: "We've air for only four days. That's no good. It'll be a month before the next ship can be finished and take . . . Read More
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Part 2 of the trilogy, same main characters but a next episode in the timeline so that it is in now way a soft redo of the strong first part of the series.
The space station has been launched and now it needs provisions and also weapons. The goal of guaranteed world peace, as little as it was credibl
Better in some ways and worse in other ways but the overall result is rather samey. Now that the first space station has been successfully launched Jo and Sally and the team must find a way to regularly stock and defend the station from a persistent multitude of enemies.
I like the level of technical
I bought my copy of this book at a local antique mall for something like 75 cents. It was in a giant stack of similar old sci-fi and fantasy pulp paperbacks, all with their spines and covers crinkled and their pages yellowed to the color of chicken soup. I picked this one more or less at random, thi
Leído en 2011
Otro de los autores clásicos "de ideas". en general se deja leer pero los que más me gustaron suyos son "Un lógico llamado Joe" o "El señor de los Uffis".
Este es Prescindible totalmente.
Joe Kenmore and his crew, astronauts with the Space Exploration Project, have been assigned to deliver supplies and defensive weapons to the Platform, mankind’s first space station.
Orbiting 4,000 miles above the Earth, the Platform was constructed solely by the United States after the United Nations
In the age of Kerbal Space Program, this book doesn't really hold up. From a geeky point of view there were things that happened in the book that just wouldn't have been possible - like blasting off with a solid rocket and rendezvousing with a ship on a different orbit. Even children today have a go
ENGLISH: This is a young-adult novel about the beginning of the conquest of space, in the same class as Space Cadet by Heinlein and Islands in the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke, but clearly inferior. On the one hand, for those who have read Space Platform, this novel is too repetitive. On the other hand,
Aaaah, another of those "what if we could fly to space and land on the moon" little books that now seems a bit sad considering everything that has happened since. BUT another of those 'todays sci-fi is tomorrows science fact' reminders, so a bit of nostalgia in reading what was Leinster's idea of wh