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| Author | Murray Leinster |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Malcolm Smith |
| Language | English |
| Series | Joe Kenmore |
| Genre | Young adultscience fiction novel |
| Publisher | Shasta Publishers |
Publication date | 1953 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 223 |
| OCLC | 6570191 |
| Preceded by | Space Platform |
| Followed by | City on the Moon |
Space Tug is ayoung adultscience fiction novel by authorMurray Leinster. It was published in1953 byShasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the second novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series.Groff Conklin gave it a mixed review inGalaxy, noting that it held "plenty of excitement though not much maturity."[1]Boucher andMcComas preferred it to the series's initial volume, but still found it "quite a notch below ... Leinster's adult work."[2]P. Schuyler Miller reported the novel was marked by "the fastest kind of action" and "the feeling of technical authenticity."[3]
The novel concerns the problems of the running of a space station.
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