Operation: Outer Space
Description of book
Operation: Outer Space is a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster first published in 1954.
A Thrilling Tale of a Space Ship's Voyage to the Moon--and Beyond!
The world's first interstellar flight is financed by making it into a television show.
Jed Cochrane is about to take off on man's first interstellar voyage.
His mission: Make sure it's good television!
Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin praised the novel as "a fast-paced, sardonic job that is primarily a satire on the future of mass communications."
Total Running Time (TRT): 6 hours, 44 min. Reading by Mark Nelson.
Murray Leinster (1896-1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an award-winning American writer of science fiction and alternate history. He wrote and published over 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.
Language:
English