Alexander Blade 9 min read

Young Bobby discovers by accident that the rocket at the secret Buffalo Flats project is about to blast off for the Moon, and naturally, he means to smuggle himself aboard.

Alexander Blade's 1953 story is a wholesome juvenile space adventure. Fast, warm golden-age SF. Read it for a genial boys' tale of a youngster's dream of spaceflight and his scheme to stow away on the first Moon rocket, in the bright, optimistic style of 1950s juvenile science fiction, brimming with the wide-eyed wonder of the dawning space age.

In its time

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

Reading it

9 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Lloyd Rognan