{{Short description|1953 novel by Murray Leinster}} {{about||the spacecraft|Space tug}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject Books --> | name = Space Tug | title_orig = | translator = | image = Space tug.jpg | caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition | author = Murray Leinster | illustrator = | cover_artist = Malcolm Smith | country = United States | language = English | series = Joe Kenmore | genre = Young adult science fiction novel | publisher = Shasta Publishers | release_date = 1953 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback) | pages = 223 | isbn = <!-- NA --> | oclc = 6570191 | preceded_by = Space Platform | followed_by = City on the Moon }}
'''''Space Tug''''' is a young adult science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was published in 1953 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the second novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series.
==Plot introduction== The novel concerns the problems of the running of a space station.
==Reception== Groff Conklin gave it a mixed review in ''Galaxy'', noting that it held "plenty of excitement though not much maturity."<ref>"Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", ''Galaxy Science Fiction'', July 1954, p.100</ref> Boucher and McComas preferred it to the series's initial volume, but still found it "quite a notch below ... Leinster's adult work."<ref>"Recommended Reading," ''F&SF'', June 1954, p.72.</ref> P. Schuyler Miller reported the novel was marked by "the fastest kind of action" and "the feeling of technical authenticity."<ref>"The Reference Library", ''Astounding Science Fiction'', November 1954, p.144</ref>
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==Sources== *{{cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker |author2=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=594 | year=1998}} *{{cite book | last=Clute | first=John | authorlink=John Clute |author2=Peter Nicholls |authorlink2=Peter Nicholls (writer) | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | location=New York| publisher=St. Martin's Griffin | pages=708 | year=1995|isbn=0-312-13486-X| title-link=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction }} *{{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=244 | year=1974|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}
==External links== * {{Gutenberg|no=18719|name=Space Tug}} * {{librivox book | title=Space Tug | author=Murray LEINSTER}}
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