Fiction

I’m now reading Boy’s Own Starship by Christopher G. Nuttall. This popped up on Kindle Unlimited. I thought it sounded like a YA similar to Heinlein’s Rocket Ship Galileo or The Rolling Stones. Two young teenage boys buy a junkyard freighter, outfit it for space, and convince their guardian older sister to accompany them as they go on an interstellar trading trip.

It’s not really written as a YA, although it’s only 114 pages. It does have strong Heinlein overtones; not only The Rolling Stones, but Citizen of the Galaxy in that the protagonist’s rich parents disappeared while traveling in space, and because they name their ship Max Jones. They acknowledge this is a name from one of their favorite books, and Max Jones is the protagonist of Starman Jones.

This is (at least so far) light reading that I’ll finish this afternoon.