Richard M. Elam 1 hr 53 min read

Beth and the Twilight Star, The Space Mail Run, Cargo for Callisto, a garland of rousing, wholesome space-adventure tales written for the young travelers of tomorrow.

Richard M. Elam's 1957 collection gathers juvenile science-fiction stories. Fast, clean, imaginative. Read it for a cheerful treasury of 1950s boys'-and-girls' space adventures, rockets, space stations, and interplanetary derring-do, in the bright, optimistic style of the era's juvenile SF, made to fire young imaginations with the wonder of the coming space age.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 53 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Victor Prezio