Murray Leinster 3 hr 33 min read

Joe Kenmore hears the airlock clank shut behind him: he and his crew are locked out of the Space Platform, four thousand miles above Earth, with thirty minutes of oxygen left.

Murray Leinster's 1953 novel, sequel to 'Space Platform,' is a taut hard-SF space opera of sabotage in orbit. Exciting, technically rich golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping space-age adventure where young engineer Joe Kenmore and his crew fight to defend humanity's foothold in space.

In its time

Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 33 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).