“Prisoners in Space” is a science fiction novel by American writer Joseph Lawrence Green . First published in 1960 . The second novel of the science fiction cycle of the writer “Dig Allen. Adventures of the space explorer . " It is considered the best novel of the cycle. [one]
| Prisoners in space | |
|---|---|
| Captives in space Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventure | |
 First Edition 1960 (Golden Press) | |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Author | Joseph Lawrence Green |
| Original language | English |
| Date of first publication | 1960 |
Content
- 1 plot
- 1.1 Features of the plot
- 2 characters
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Story
The work consists of 22 chapters. The events of the novel take place in the XXII century in the solar system .
The crew of the Starover spacecraft discovers a catastrophe cargo ship on which someone's voices are heard. No one was found on the cargo, but there are strange toy-sized cars and empty cages. Young researchers manage to separate the living compartment from the nuclear engine, which threatens to explode at any time, and tow the compartment into the orbit of Mars . Researchers turn for advice to their mother starship living in the slums of Marsoport, which confirms their hunch about toy cars. They return to the cargo and cunningly discover two tiny little men. To learn the unknown language of aliens, "Starover" goes to the asteroid Eros , where a special linguistic computer is located. It turned out that the aliens were captured by smugglers, but, not knowing astronomy, they cannot help in the search for their own planet. According to the description of living conditions, scientists guess that this is Mercury . Arriving on Mercury, young researchers discover smugglers there. As a result of incredible adventures, they manage to capture the leader and save the inhabitants of a small planet.
Story Features
- The asteroid Eros turned out to be a giant spaceship and became an important scientific center of earthlings.
- The Langivac computer, located on Eros, is able to decrypt languages and quickly learn any language.
- In describing civilization on Mercury, the author attaches great importance to the fact that the planet is always facing the Sun on one side, like the Moon facing one side of the Earth. As a result, one side of the planet is red-hot, and the opposite is an icy desert and in the narrow strip between these areas there is a temperate zone favorable for life. Indeed, it was long believed that Mercury was turned to the Sun on one side. Only in the mid-1960s did it become clear that this was not so.
Characters
The crew of the spacecraft Starover:
- Dig Allen - crew member, son of the famous starship.
- Ken Barry is a crew member.
- Jim Barry is a crew member, Ken's brother.
Other characters:
- Rough is the owner of a cafe in Marsoport.
- Old Dorkas is a wise former pilot.
- Colonel May is a guard on Mars.
- Borin, Genang - aliens.
- Cohn Gregs is the owner of a shop in Marsoport, a buyer of stolen goods.
- Sergeant Brul is the head of security at Eros.
- Woody Weston is a worker on Eros.
- Dr. Weston is a researcher at Eros, Woody's father.
- Ointments, Jack are smugglers.
- Koromei is the head of a computer company, the leader of smugglers.