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Islands in the Sky

by Arthur C. Clarke
Islands in the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke
★ 5.80 / 5
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Roy Malcolm had wanted to get out into space for as long as he could remember. He'd read everything he could on aviation, he'd seen all the movies and telecasts from space and made rocket-propelled models of famous spaceships.

His chance comes when, at the age of sixteen, he wins a TV Aviation Quiz, For prize he asks to go to the Inner Station. There, rotating five hundred miles from Earth, danger and exitement await him...

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Science FictionYoung Adult
Release date: 1952

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Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Born 1917 in Minehead, England. Died 19th of March 2008 in Sri Lanka.

More books by Arthur C. Clarke

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