Carey Rockwell 3 hr 38 min read

When a hundred mysterious ships and a stolen vessel called the Space Knight signal treachery among the stars, Space Cadets Tom, Roger, and Astro race to expose the plot.

Carey Rockwell's 1954 novel is a brisk juvenile space opera from the beloved Tom Corbett, Space Cadet series. Fast, wholesome, exciting. Read it for a rousing Space Academy adventure, the three cadets of the Polaris braving danger and skulduggery among the planets, in the clean, optimistic style that made Tom Corbett a fixture of 1950s juvenile science fiction and TV.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 38 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Louis Glanzman