Series
Tom Corbett Space Cadet
Carey Rockwell, Paul S. Newman, Marcia Martin (children's author) & R. Allen Leider · 9 novels · 2 short stories · 1952–2020
The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet novels (eight books published 1952-1956 by Grosset & Dunlap) follow cadets training at the Space Academy for the Solar Guard, moving between the academy, their training ship the Polaris, and assorted alien worlds. The books were ghostwritten under the house name Carey Rockwell, with rocket scientist Willy Ley credited as technical advisor, tying the series to the 1950s Tom Corbett television franchise it was spun off from.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Tom Corbett Space Cadet at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s9
- 1960s0
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
9 novels · 2 short stories
4 authors
reads like:science fictionspace explorationspacefar futureadventurousmiddle grade
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book10 of 11 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Revolt on Venusdarkest · most intense
- Stand by for Mars!brightest
- Tom Corbett's Wonder Book of Spacecalmest