Space Cadets

Space Cadets edited by Mike Resnick 24 stories illiciting memories of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

The late Frankie Thomas, who died just as this book was going to press, thrilled a generation of future fans and writers as Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, in the early days of television. L.A. Con IV, the 2006 World Science Fiction Convention, selected Frankie as its Special Guest, and this book of stories about space cadets, each and every one of them inspired by Frankies acts of derring-do on the small black-and-white screens of the very early 1950s, is the conventions and Fandoms tribute to him.

In these pages youll find stories by L.A. Con IVs Writer Guest of Honor Connie Willis, plus Mercedes Lackey, Harry Turtledove, Kevin J. Anderson, David Brin, Larry Niven, Mike Resnick, Gregory Benford & Elizabeth Malartre, Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Dean Wesley Smith, Josepha Sherman, Todias Buckell, Craig Miller, Ralph Roberts, Kay Kenyon, Catherine Asaro, Stephen Leigh, Nick DiChario, Michael Burstein, Barry Malzberg, Brad Sinor, John DeChancie, and the book concludes with a novella by David Gerrold.

Before he died, Frankie wrote down some of his experiences as a young actor portraying Tom Corbett, and they are included here as well.

The cover art is by L.A. Con IVs Artist Guest of Honor James Gurney.

Contents:
Introduction by Mike Resnick —
Foreword: Tom and me by Frankie Thomas —
Need to know by Mercedes Lackey —
First flight by Nancy Kress —
Harry, Larry, Barry & Frankie by Mike Resnick —
The academy of humanity by Nick DiChario —
D.A. by Connie Willis —
Log entry by Kevin J. Anderson —
Echoes of pride by Catherine Asaro —
Monkey girl by Josepha Sherman —
Someone is stealing the great throne rooms of the galaxy by Harry Turtledove —
Logistics by Ralph Roberts —
Tall enough for Navy by Kay Kenyon —
They also serve by Stephen Leigh —
Riders of the hidden trail by Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch —
The gorgon’s head by Elizabeth Malartre & Gregory Benford —
Redemption in the quantum foam by Michael A. Burstein —
These, the inheritors by Barry N. Malzberg —
Washed out by Craig Miller —
Boomer by John DeChancie —
A proper farewell by Bradley H. Sinor —
Eloquent elepents pine away for the moon’s crystal forests by David Brin —
The silver streak by Tobias S. Buckell —
Cadet Amelia by Larry Niven —
Turtledome by David Gerrold.