Space Tug

For the spacecraft, see Space tug.

Space Tug

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Murray Leinster
Cover artist	Malcolm Smith
Language	English
Series	Joe Kenmore
Genre	Young adult science fiction novel
Publisher	Shasta Publishers
Publication date	1953
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	223
OCLC	6570191
Preceded by	Space Platform
Followed by	City on the Moon

Space Tug is a young adult science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was published in 1953 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the second novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series.

Plot introduction

The novel concerns the problems of the running of a space station.

Reception

Groff Conklin gave it a mixed review in Galaxy, noting that it held "plenty of excitement though not much maturity." Boucher and McComas preferred it to the series's initial volume, but still found it "quite a notch below ... Leinster's adult work." P. Schuyler Miller reported the novel was marked by "the fastest kind of action" and "the feeling of technical authenticity."

Sources

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 594.
• Clute, John; Peter Nicholls (1995). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 708. ISBN 0-312-13486-X.
• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 244. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

External links

• Space Tug at Project Gutenberg
• Space Tug public domain audiobook at LibriVox