On the Trail of the Space Pirates

Grand low adventure! trappings of WWII Navy terms; out there plots, characters, pseudoscience; daring do intrepid young men saving the day... oh, and typical sexism of the day that helped reinforce the generation's warped perspective: "If one more scatterbrained female asks me how the astrogation pr......more

Tom, Roger, and Astro, the crew of the Polaris, blast off again in one of the better entries in the series. Very nice blue outer-space art endpapers and interior illustrations by Louis Glanzman enhanced the series, all of which had colorful and action-packed covers. Willy Ley was credited as being t......more

Probably the best of the first three Tom Corbett novels. As corny as ever, but I'm not holding that against them.......more

My obsession with Tom Corbett Space Cadet continues with the third novel in the young adult science fiction/TV tie-in series On The Trail Of The Space Pirates. Like the first two novels, it is listed as being written by Carey Rockwell, apparently a joint pseudonym assigned to any Tom Corbett book. I......more

Published in 1953 before there was a detailed understanding of the environments of the other planets and satellites in the solar system, there are some major scientific holes in the plot. Venus is depicted as a habitable planet and there are rather Earthlike colonies on Mars and some of the satelli......more