Space Platform

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “Space Platform” by sci-fi master Murray Leinster is the story of Joe Kenmore, who dreamed of Man’s conquest of space and played an essential role in making that dream a reality. Joe helped develop the gyros for the Space Platform, a massive piece of outer space hardware that would soon orbit Earth. However, Joe found there was far more than just the making of these gyros—they had to be correctly installed and, more importantly, protected from spies and saboteurs who would stop at nothing to disrupt the entire project. It would take courage and inventiveness to get the Platform into space; and when that was accomplished, the Moon was just down the road a piece. Murray Leinster’s “Space Platform,” and its sequel "Space Tug" (also available from Armchair Fiction) are more than just well-written sci-fi adventures, they are thrilling accounts of Man’s first excursions into space and the challenges and dangers that went along with them.