Series
To the Stars (Leinster)
Murray Leinster · 3 novels · 1953–1957
Murray Leinster's Joe Kenmore trilogy follows a master machinist's son through the Cold War-era race to build and defend America's first space station, then a rescue tug, and finally a lunar outpost, in three techno-thriller adventures blending realistic 1950s spaceflight speculation with sabotage plots. Space Platform (1953) introduces Kenmore amid attempts to sabotage the orbital station project; Space Tug and City on the Moon carry the same hardware-focused approach into orbit and onto the Moon.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 1950s3
Shape
3 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace explorationthe moonnear futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Space Platformdarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense