Rocket to Luna Winston Science Fiction Book 18 edition by Evan Hunter Children eBooks
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When the first moon-bound rocket blasted off from the Earth's space station in 1983, it was as ready for every eventuality as scientists and engineers could make it. But neither the crew nor the authorities were prepared for the last-minute switch in the ship's complement that upset carefully planned replacement schedules. Instead of a highly trained Air Force Academy graduate as the fifth man in the pioneering crew, the inaugural rocket headed into space with teen-age Ted Baker, an Academy senior.
Around a tragic misunderstanding, Richard Marsten has traced a tale of high excitement from the Earth's gleaming satellite space station to the ragged surface of a hostile Moon. His story of how a teen-ager crash lands a crippled ship on the Moon, far from its base of supplies, is not only an unexcelled description of space flight but a tense personal drama of a young man who proves his worth to a hostile crew.
A thousand-mile trek on foot across the face of the Moon, the discovery of organic matter on the planet's airless surface, the slow depletion of irreplaceable supplies, the effect of the Sun on a planet that lacks atmosphere, stud this story of a strained relationship between stranded crew members with fascinating detail. Climaxed with a rocket blastoff that vindicates the judgment of one young earthling, ROCKET TO LUNA is as gripping a flight into space and the future as any contemporary author has written.
ROCKET TO LUNA is a juvenile science fiction novel, published first in 1953 as one of the books in the Winston Science Fiction series. The author, Evan Hunter, had a very successful writing career. He was also prolific and used a number of pen names. As Hunter, he wrote THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, a novel dealing with juvenile crime and the New York City public school system. It and the 1955 movie based on the book were highly acclaimed. He also had a successful screenwriting career, producing scripts for movies and TV, including the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's film THE BIRDS (1963). However, he is probably best known for the crime fiction he wrote using the pen name Ed McBain. His 87th Precinct series is often credited with inventing the "police procedural" genre of crime fiction. The books were turned into a number of movies and TV series.
Rocket to Luna Winston Science Fiction Book 18 edition by Evan Hunter Children eBooks
Many of us who came to science fiction in the 1950s credit our introduction to the genre to the Winston series. Winston recruited a stable of well-established SF authors, including such icons as Arthur C. Clarke, Ben Bova, Lester del Rey, and Poul Anderson, to write a series of books for the 13-17 age group. The quality of the writing ranged from poor to fairly decent. Evan Hunter (who also used the names Richard Marsten and Ed McBain during his 40+ year career) wrote three of the Winston books. As you might expect from a writer who penned a number of very successful crime stories and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, the writing is fairly competent, but Rocket to Luna is by far the weakest of his Winston books.In the story a cadet about to graduate from “The Academy” (assumed to be the Air Force Academy) does several stupid things that result in him accidentally being aboard the first rocket to the moon. Once aboard he endures days of abuse by the rest of the crew without once trying to explain why he happened to be there. That’s hardly the behavior one would expect from a prospective military officer! While there is a lot of accurate information about orbital mechanics, the space science is really dated. In fact, chuckling over the naïveté of concepts of space travel and Lunar exploration from a 1953 perspective is the main attraction of the book.
Hunter/Marsten/McBain did better in his Winston time travel books Danger: Dinosaurs! and Find the Feathered Serpent.
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Rocket to Luna Winston Science Fiction Book 18 edition by Evan Hunter Children eBooks Reviews
ROCKET TO LUNA
Rocket To Luna was written by Evan Hunter in 1953, and is part of the Winston Science Fiction series.
When Ted Baker, an Academy senior was chosen to spend his final year on the Space Station he was excited. He was flown up to the station with the Moon crew for the first rocket to be travelling to the Moon.
Jack Talbot an Academy graduate, was part of the Moon crew, and was known by Ted Baker. The acceleration from earth to the space station injures Jack and only the two know about it. Ted tries to get Jack to turn himself in to the medics. When this fails there is a scuffle with Jack being knocked out.
Ted goes to the Moon Rocket, which is set for immediate departure for the Moon, and tries to tell the crew about Jack’s injury. This information becomes a tragic mis-understanding, and Ted is accused of harming Jack to force his way onto the crew.
The story is a tale of high excitement in space due to meteorites, and on Moon, when Ted crash lands the crippled ship far from its base of supplies. It is not only an unexcelled description of space flight, but a tense personal drama of a young man who proves his worth to a hostile crew.
A thousand-mile trek on foot across the face of the Moon with a person hostile to him, the discovery of organic matter on the planet's airless surface, the slow depletion of irreplaceable supplies, and the effect of the Sun, fill this story of strained relationship between the stranded crew members, with fascinating detail. It is climaxed with a rocket blastoff, to land at the base of supplies, that vindicates the judgment and actions of one young earthling,
ROCKET TO LUNA is a gripping story of future space flight, and holds you to the very end. I recommend this book to all, young and old alike.
Many of us who came to science fiction in the 1950s credit our introduction to the genre to the Winston series. Winston recruited a stable of well-established SF authors, including such icons as Arthur C. Clarke, Ben Bova, Lester del Rey, and Poul Anderson, to write a series of books for the 13-17 age group. The quality of the writing ranged from poor to fairly decent. Evan Hunter (who also used the names Richard Marsten and Ed McBain during his 40+ year career) wrote three of the Winston books. As you might expect from a writer who penned a number of very successful crime stories and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, the writing is fairly competent, but Rocket to Luna is by far the weakest of his Winston books.
In the story a cadet about to graduate from “The Academy” (assumed to be the Air Force Academy) does several stupid things that result in him accidentally being aboard the first rocket to the moon. Once aboard he endures days of abuse by the rest of the crew without once trying to explain why he happened to be there. That’s hardly the behavior one would expect from a prospective military officer! While there is a lot of accurate information about orbital mechanics, the space science is really dated. In fact, chuckling over the naïveté of concepts of space travel and Lunar exploration from a 1953 perspective is the main attraction of the book.
Hunter/Marsten/McBain did better in his Winston time travel books Danger Dinosaurs! and Find the Feathered Serpent.
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