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Space Station 1

Frank Long

Space Station 1

Original publication
1957
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
309
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Science Fiction
Translated from
English

Book summary

A science-fiction mystery set in a future where humanity has colonized Mars. Young Lieutenant David Corriston is on his way to an immense space station orbiting the Earth, the hub through which every spaceship passes. During the voyage, the bodyguard of Helen Ramsey, daughter of a powerful Martian magnate, is killed before his eyes, and then the young woman vanishes. On the station he is said to be suffering from space-shock, while he uncovers impostors hidden behind masks. A fast-paced story that blends detective plot and space adventure.

The plot

A passenger vanishes in a lounge. On a ship flying to a space station, David Corriston, a young officer, is talking with a woman passenger.

The world of the book

One space station for every ship. In this future, people live on Mars. Every ship that leaves Earth or comes back to it stops at the Station. There, ships take on fuel and each one is inspected. The Station is about…

The author

Frank Belknap Long, 1901 – 1994. Frank Belknap Long was born in New York in 1901. As a child, he read Jules Verne and dreamed of exploring the Amazon rainforest. At 19, he became friends with H. P. Lovecraft, a writer…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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