Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin
"Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet" by Harold L. Goodwin is a young adult science fiction novel published in 1952. Newly commissioned Planeteer Lieutenant Rip Foster faces his first major assignment: retrieve a valuable thorium asteroid from the asteroid belt and deliver it to Earth. Already dealing with inter-service tensions aboard his Space Force vessel, Foster must now contend with hostile agents from the Consolidation of Peoples Governments who want the asteroid
for themselves. A Cold War-era space adventure of rivalry, duty, and high-stakes competition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland), 1914-1990 |
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| Title | Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Foster_Rides_the_Gray_Planet |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 85.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Space flight -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 20147 |
| Release Date | Dec 20, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 20, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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