{{Short description|Series of novels by E. C. Eliott}} {{Multiple issues| {{refimprove|date=June 2009}} {{Primary sources|date=September 2024}} }} The '''Kemlo''' books are a series of children's science fiction novels written by Reginald Alec Martin, under the pseudonym of E. C. Eliott.<ref>{{cite book|author1=R. Reginald|author2=Douglas Menville|author3=Mary A. Burgess|title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P8zW2AH6150C&pg=PA741|date=September 2010|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=978-0-941028-76-9|page=741}}</ref> The first book, ''Kemlo and the Crazy Planet'' was published in 1954; the fifteenth and final book in the series, ''Kemlo and the Masters of Space'', was published in 1963.
==Plot== The central character, Kemlo, was born and raised in space, on a satellite named Satellite Belt K (one of a number of similar space stations named after a letter of the alphabet). All children born on a space station were given names with the same initial, hence the names Kemlo, Kartin, Kerowski, Krillie, and so on. Kemlo is a Captain of the Space Scouts, who have their own "scooters" - small two-seat personal spacecraft for travel around and between the Satellite Belts. Kemlo, like all children born in space, breathes "plasmorgia" instead of air. This allows him to breathe in space, although it means he is unable to travel to Earth without the aid of compressed plasmorgia and "gravity rays".
== Books == right|440px|Cover of ''Kemlo and the Crazy Planet''', 1954, Illustration by R.J.Jobson
# ''Kemlo and the Crazy Planet'' (1954)<ref>ISBN 9781473212251</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Zones of Silence'' (1954)<ref>ISBN 9781473212268</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Sky Horse'' (1954)<ref>ISBN 9781473212275</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Martian Ghosts'' (1955)<ref>ISBN 9781473212282</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Space Lanes'' (1955)<ref>ISBN 9781473212299</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Craters of the Moon'' (1955)<ref>ISBN 9781473212305</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Star Men'' (1955)<ref>ISBN 9781473212312</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Gravity Rays'' (1956)<ref>ISBN 9781473212329</ref> # ''Kemlo and the End of Time'' (1957)<ref>ISBN 9781473212336</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Purple Dawn'' (1957)<ref>ISBN 9781473212343</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Zombie Men'' (1958)<ref>ISBN 9781473212350</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Space Men'' (1959)<ref>ISBN 9781473212367</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Satellite Builders'' (1960)<ref>ISBN 9781473212374</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Space Invaders'' (1961)<ref>ISBN 9781473212381</ref> # ''Kemlo and the Masters of Space'' (1963)<ref>ISBN 9781473212398</ref>
== References == * Eliott, E. C. (1954). ''Kemlo and the Crazy Planet''. Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. * Eliott, E. C. (1968). ''Kemlo and the Space Lanes''. Merlin Books, Paul Hamlyn Publishing Group (paperback edition of 1955 book). * Hunt, Peter; Ray, Sheila G. Bannister (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=XqaTzQBVDCAC&pg=PA319 ''International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature'']. Routledge. p. 319. {{ISBN|0-203-16812-7}}.
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Category:Science fiction book series Category:Children's science fiction novels Category:Space exploration novels
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