Carey Rockwell 3 hr 56 min read

Tom Corbett and his fellow Space Cadets escort a convoy of colonists to a distant frontier world, where sabotage, danger, and mystery await the young Solar Guardsmen.

Carey Rockwell's 1953 novel is a brisk, wholesome juvenile space opera from the beloved Tom Corbett series. Fast, clean, nostalgic. Read it for a rousing boys' adventure of the Space Academy era, teamwork, courage, and clever problem-solving as young cadets face treachery on the trail of the space pioneers.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 56 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Louis Glanzman