Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet: A Golden Griffon Space Adventure - Softcover

Savage, Blake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611040574 ISBN 13: 9781611040579

Publisher: ReadaClassic.com, 2010

Synopsis

"Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet" is a young adult science fiction novel written by Harold L. Goodwin under the pseudonym Blake Savage. Lt. Rip Foster, a freshly graduated and commissioned Planeteer (the space-going equivalent of a Marine), already having to deal with inter-service rivalry with the Space Force crewman (more equivalent to the Navy than to the Air Force) with whom he serves, is tasked with retrieving an asteroid made of pure thorium from the asteroid belt and bringing it back to Earth for use as fissionable material. However, the totalitarian Connies have their own plans for the asteroid. "Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet" emphasizes action and adventure, and hints at a geo-political situation not unlike that of the early 1950s.

About this title

About the Author

Blake Savage is a pen name of Harold Leland Goodwin, an American writer. (1914 -1990) He was known to his friends as Hal Goodwin. Goodwin wrote popular science books, mostly about space exploration, as Harold L. Goodwin, "Hal Goodwin" and "Harold Leland Goodwin". He also wrote children's books as Blake Savage (Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet) and John Blaine (the Rick Brant series). In the latter case, he co-wrote (with Peter J. Harkins) the first 3 books in the series and wrote books 4 through 24 by himself.

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadaClassic.com
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611040574
• ISBN 13: 9781611040579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138