| The Revolt on Venus by Carey Rockwell, Science Fiction, Adventure Contributor(s): Rockwell, Carey (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603129367 ISBN-13: 9781603129367 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This, the fifth book in the "Tom Corbett" series by "Carey Rockwell" (whoever he was in real life) -- is, like all of the "Tom Corbett" books, something special. It's another tale of the three young men who serve in the Solar Guard as Space Cadets. Astro has managed to talk Tom and Roger into coming to Venus for summer vacation. He's got perfect summer work for the three of them: he's got a little business hunting down tyrannosauri and selling the carcasses to restaurants. (The meat, apparently, is considered a delicacy. Ewwww!) But stranger stuff than dinos (imagine that, dinos on Venus!) is on the horizon: before they even leave the station for Venus, they're caught in a bombing, and it'll lead them into the thick of the Venetian resistance. . . ! Neat stuff! Read it now! |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.77 lbs) 140 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This, the fifth book in the "Tom Corbett" series by "Carey Rockwell" (whoever he was in real life) -- is, like all of the "Tom Corbett" books, something special. It's another tale of the three young men who serve in the Solar Guard as Space Cadets. Astro has managed to talk Tom and Roger into coming to Venus for summer vacation. He's got perfect summer work for the three of them: he's got a little business hunting down tyrannosauri and selling the carcasses to restaurants. (The meat, apparently, is considered a delicacy. Ewwww ) But stranger stuff than dinos (imagine that, dinos on Venus ) is on the horizon: before they even leave the station for Venus, they're caught in a bombing, and it'll lead them into the thick of the Venetian resistance. . . Neat stuff Read it now |
Contributor Bio(s): Rockwell, Carey: - "Written by unknown authors, under the pseudonym Carey Rockwell, with Willy Ley as technical advisor. Based upon the Tom Corbett - Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, comic strips and other media in the 1950s. The stories followed the adventures of Corbett, Astro, originally Roger Manning and later T.J. Thistle, cadets at the Space Academy as they train to become members of the Solar Guard. The action takes place at the Academy in classrooms and bunkrooms, aboard their training ship the rocket cruiser Polaris and on alien worlds, both within the solar system and in orbit around nearby stars." |
