Louis S. Glanzman (1922–2013)

A 1950s young adult science fiction story, Danger In Deep Space is the follow on from Stand By For Mars! featuring Tom Corbett, space cadet.

It's a light space romp where we see two disgraced spacemen attempt to heist a satelitte consisting mainly of copper which is now extremely rare and sought after, the science is, uh, shall we say imaginative even for 1953, yet I felt that didn't really detract from the story.

One thing I did note was like the first novel in the series the prefix of space is added to many words to, well, spacify them. It kind of seems like lazy writing to just throw space infront of a word rather than a proper description or even just leave boots be boots, is there a need for them to be space boots? I already know they're in space. Examples of this include space-papers, space-dreams, space-dolls (women), space-happy, space-bums, space-speed and a few others.

Overall though, it's a light and entertaining read.… (mere)

Okay but too much testerone, fisticuff stuff to be SF, even considering was published in early 50s. Read more like some wild west claim jumping way-out-there-with-no-sherriffs type of story. Space cadets needed white hats and the bad guys black hats (and in true 50s fashion had to be a moral lecture). Expected obsolete science but hard to swallow a lot of it like yanking an ore rich asteroid back to earth's orbit to be an extra moon and no one worrying about gravitational impacts on tides and such.… (mere)