''Space Tug'' is a

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science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space ...

novel by author

Murray Leinster Murray Leinster () was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of List of science fiction authors, science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 ...

. It was published in

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the second novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series. Groff Conklin gave it a mixed review in ''Galaxy'', noting that it held "plenty of excitement though not much maturity." Boucher and McComas preferred it to the series's initial volume, but still found it "quite a notch below ... Leinster's adult work." P. Schuyler Miller reported the novel was marked by "the fastest kind of action" and "the feeling of technical authenticity.""The Reference Library", ''

Astounding Science Fiction ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William C ...

'', November 1954, p.144

Plot introduction

The novel concerns the problems of the running of a space station.

Publication history

* 1953, US, Shasta Publishers , Pub date 1953, Hardback * 1955, US,

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, Pub date 1955, Paperback * 1957, Germany, Utopia-Grossband, Pub date 1957, Hardback, as ''Zwischen Erde und Mond'' * 1965, US, Belmont , Pub date 1965, Paperback * 1966, Germany, Terra Extra, Pub date 1966, Hardback, as ''Zwischen Erde und Mond'' * 1972, the Netherlands, Luitingh-Sijthoff, Pub date 1972, Paperback, as ''Sabotage 2: Pendeldienst''

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