This is THE book...the one that set me on a Year of Nostalgic Re-reads, and the one that prompted a nine-year old boy to declare unequivocally that Lester del Rey was the "best science fiction writer ever!" Okay, so he wasn't...but del Rey was a pretty savvy editor and publisher. I finally got this from openlibrary.org (they had some issues with their waiting list code), and thoroughly enjoyed reading it again after 43 years. Dated, and clearly aimed at a juvenile audience, del Rey snuck in a few elements of wisdom not lost on my young mind.

This is the first science fiction book I owned. My mother reminded me that "the librarian would almost always have you and her son read any of the science fiction books first to make sure they were all right." Strangely, despite my pretty good memory, I did not recall that. ( )

Characters still resonate (yeah, even the robot and science fiction from this time not always character driven). Geared more to younger audience than adults but still a good book. ( )

I remember reading this ( )

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I remember reading this ( )