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Stand By For Mars! - CHAPTER 5

We're exploring this novel a few chapters at a time, interspersed throughout each series.  We return for our fourth visit to this story, with chapter 5.

Stand by for Mars! is the first of eight novels written between 1952 and 1956. It features a young Tom Corbett who is trying to fulfill his dream of becoming a Space Cadet on his way to joining the Solar Guard. But interpersonal conflicts stand in his way.

Written by Carry Rockwell

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Morgue Ship, Part 2

Morgue Ship, Part 1

The Carnivore

Why were they apologetic? It wasn't their fault that they came to Earth much too late.

From Outer Space

The grizzled old space veteran leaned back in his chair and stared up through the transparent dome. In the black sky, myriad white specks gleamed without twinkling, their light unbent by atmosphere or dust.

Written by Robert Zacks

Spaceman's Luck

Holt wasn't interested in mere glory. He was on his way to the Moon, but only because that's

Written by George O. Smith

Stand By For Mars! - CHAPTER 2 and 3

We're be exploring this novel a few chapters at a time, interspersed throughout each series.  We return for our third visit to this story, with chapter 2 and 3.

Stand by for Mars! is the first of eight novels written between 1952 and 1956. It features a young Tom Corbett who is trying to fulfill his dream of becoming a Space Cadet on his way to joining the Solar Guard. But interpersonal conflicts stand in his way.

Written by Carry Rockwell

Grounded

Lieutenant Colonel Martin sat back in his hard desk chair and looked out through the tinted window to where the slim, dartlike jets waited, poised on the sun-washed runways. A red and blue jet swooped down out of the brilliant, cloudless sky and shot along the runway, wheeled and rolled back toward the parking strip. It was the courier ship from Washington...

Written by William Sambrot