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Islands in the Sky

Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Carroll · 1952 · Novel

Synopsis

When young Roy Malcolm won the Aviation Quiz Contest, the sponsor, World Airways, never dreamed he could legally claim a trip to the Inner Space Station as his prize. Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, this is an amazing yarn about a teen-ager's adventures and conflicts five hundred miles up on a strange, artificial outpost that circles our planet. What promised to be merely a sightseeing jaunt into space soon shaped up into the most thrilling weeks in Roy's life. For shortly after his arrival at the outpost a mysterious and untalkative spaceship "anchored" ten miles off the station - and its suspicious behavior fitted in perfectly with the space crew's ideas on interplanetary crime.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: English Science fictionFictionInterplanetary voyagesSpace stationsScience fictionChildren's fictionFiction, science fiction, generalFiction, generalFantasy fiction

isfdb_id: 11176

openlibrary_id: OL17416W

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