Richard M. Elam 2 hr 37 min read

When young stowaways slip aboard the spaceship Orion and are carried off into the deeps, they find themselves adrift in space and bound for adventure on a carefree alien world.

Richard M. Elam's 1960 juvenile novel is a rousing boys' space-adventure. Fast, clean, imaginative. Read it for a wholesome 1950s-style space yarn of young stowaways swept into interplanetary peril and wonder, in the bright, optimistic style of the era's juvenile science fiction, brimming with the thrill of blast-offs, alien worlds, and youthful courage.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Gerald McCann