The Tom Corbett Space Cadet Megapack Quotes

“It would have taken all spacemen present about ten days to complete the job by regular methods, but the electronic computer produced the answer in three minutes.”
― Carey Rockwell, The Tom Corbett Space Cadet Megapack: 10 Classic Young Adult Sci-Fi Novels

“Roger began throwing darts idly at his “solar system” over his bunk. It was a map of his own design depicting the planets revolving around the sun, only each planet was represented by a picture of a girl, and his own grinning countenance was the sun. He was known to have made dates by throwing a dart at the map blindly and taking out the girl whose picture he had hit.”
― Carey Rockwell, The Tom Corbett Space Cadet Megapack: 10 Classic Young Adult Sci-Fi Novels

“CHAPTER 2 Space Academy, U.S.A.! This was the dream and goal of every boy in the thrilling year 2354, when mankind had reached out beyond the bounds of Earth and had conquered space, colonizing planets and blazing trails to distant worlds deep in the black void of the outer universe. To support the ever-growing need for trained spacemen to man the rocket ships that linked the planets and distant satellite outposts, the Solar Alliance, the government of the solar system, had erected Space Academy. It was there that the most promising boys were trained to become members of the Solar Guard to patrol the space lanes and keep peace in the universe. Organized into tight, hard-hitting units of three, the Academy cadets were trained to work together under the most severe conditions. Their waking hours were spent in one of two places; in powerful rocket cruisers, blasting through space on endless training missions, or at the Academy in classrooms and lecture halls, where they studied everything from the theory of space flight to the application of space laws. A very important course of study was the theory of government. For, above all else, the Solar Alliance was a government of the people. And to assure the survival and continuance of that democratic system, the officers of the Solar Guard functioned as the watchdogs of the space democracy, entrusted with the vital mission of making sure the government reflected the will of the people.”
― Carey Rockwell, The Tom Corbett Space Cadet Megapack: 10 Classic Young Adult Sci-Fi Novels

“What would you do,” Roger would ask an applicant, “if you were suddenly drifting in space, in danger, and found that you had lost the vacuum in your audio tubes? How would you get help?” Not one in over three hundred had realized that space itself was a perfect vacuum and could be substituted for the tubes. Roger had turned thumbs down on all of them. Astro and Tom found their interviews equally as rough. One applicant admitted to Tom that he wanted to go to the satellite to establish a factory for making rocket juice, a highly potent drink that was not outlawed in the solar system, but”
― Carey Rockwell, The Tom Corbett Space Cadet Megapack: 10 Classic Young Adult Sci-Fi Novels

“What do you say, Doctor?” asked Hawks. The doctor hesitated a moment and then smiled. “Well, Commissioner, Cadet Manning has several strained muscles in his back, but the best treatment for that is exercise.” Hawks nodded and signed a release slip which the doctor gave him. Astro helped Roger put on his space boots, and five minutes later they were speeding back to the exposition grounds”
― Carey Rockwell, The Tom Corbett Space Cadet Megapack: 10 Classic Young Adult Sci-Fi Novels

“turned his whole attention to the tabulator, ripped off the answer with lightning”
― Carey Rockwell, The Tom Corbett Space Cadet Megapack: 10 Classic Young Adult Sci-Fi Novels