A TOM CORBETT Space Cadett Adventure: STAND BY FOR MARS!Grosset & Dunlap -- hc
New York -- ©1952 -- 216pp
Willy Ley technical advisor
illustrated -- no illustration credits given (or found on the internet)
Three young men join the Solar Guard Corps and could become the best unit in the fleet if they can learn to get along. Tom Corbet, from Earth, is the unit leader; Astro, from Venus, is the mechanic; and Roger Manning, from Earth, is the navigator with a chip on his shoulder.
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Another boys' adventure book from the 1950's which I read out loud to my sons at bed time. they both enjoyed it, but not quite as much as the Tom Swift book that I read previously.
Although a little harder to read that the Tom Swift series, this contained a nice "meesage" of the need for cooperation and working together. The curmudgeonly Roger Manning never really seemed to come clean with what his grudge against the Corps really was about.
Still, a pretty decent sci-fi book from 50+ years ago.
