Harold L. Goodwin 3 hr 34 min read

'Foster, Lieutenant, R.I.P.,' blares the voice horn, and a green young Planeteer, just out of training, is off on a mission wilder than any he'd imagined, aboard the spaceship Scorpius.

Harold L. Goodwin's 1952 juvenile novel (as Blake Savage) is a brisk, exciting cadet space opera. Fast, wholesome, thrilling period SF. Read it for a rousing 1950s boys' adventure where a raw young Planeteer must prove himself on a perilous mission to a gray world.

In its time

Published in 1952, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 34 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).