Space Platform is a YA science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 novel by author Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history...

. It was published in 1953

1953 in literature

The year 1953 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway....

 by Shasta Publishers

Shasta Publishers

Shasta Publishers was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing house founded in 1947 by Erle Melvin Korshak, T. E. Dikty, and Mark Reinsberg, who were all science fiction fans from the Chicago area...

 in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the first novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series.

Plot introduction

The novel concerns the sabotage of attempts to place a platform in Earth orbit.

Reception

P. Schuyler Miller

P. Schuyler Miller

Peter Schuyler Miller was an American science fiction writer and critic.-Life:Miller was raised in New York's Mohawk Valley, which led to a life-long interest in the Iroquois Indians. He pursued this as an amateur archaeologist and a member of the New York State Archaeological Association.He...

 reported the novel was marked by "the fastest kind of action" and "the feeling of technical authenticity."

Publication history

• 1953, USA, Shasta Publishers
  Shasta Publishers
  Shasta Publishers was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing house founded in 1947 by Erle Melvin Korshak, T. E. Dikty, and Mark Reinsberg, who were all science fiction fans from the Chicago area...
  
   , Pub date 1953, Hardback
• 1953, USA, Pocket Books
  Pocket Books
  Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.- History :Pocket produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in America in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry...
  
  , Pub date 1953, Paperback
• 1957, Germany, Utopia-Kriminal, Pub date 1957, Hardback, as Projekt Raumstation
• 1957, Italy, Cosmo , Pub date 1957, Hardback, as Plattaform spaziale
• 1965, USA, Belmont , Pub date 1965, Paperback
• 1966, Germany, Terra Extra, Pub date 1966, Hardback, as Projekt Raumstation
• 1972, the Netherlands, Luitingh-Sijhoff, Pub date 1972, Paperback, as Sabotage 1: Ruimteplatform