William Dixon Bell 3 hr 37 min read

A bulletproof stowaway, an Arctic blizzard, a flashing cylinder, and a dangerous scientist, the makings of a rousing rocket-adventure that carries young Billy all the way to a colony on the Moon.

William Dixon Bell's 1937 novel is a brisk juvenile space-adventure. Fast, colorful, wholesome period SF. Read it for a rollicking boys' rocket yarn of the 1930s, stowaways, villainous scientists, and battling giant crickets on the Moon, in the grand tradition of pulp-era juvenile science fiction.

In its time

Published in 1937, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

3 hr 37 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).