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In the little desert town of Bootstrap stands a huge metal shed. In the
shed men are building an object that can change the history of mankind.
It is a Space Platform. Propelled to an orbit 4000 miles from Earth this
platform will serve as the starting place for man's exploration of
mysterious outer space.

SPACE PLATFORM tells the exciting story of a young man helping to build
this first station. With scientific accuracy and imagination Murray
Leinster, one of the world's top science-fiction writers, describes the
building and launching of the platform. Here is a fast-paced story of
sabotage and murder directed against a project more secret and valuable
than the atom bomb!

Cover illustration by Earle Bergey

THIS IS A GENUINE
POCKET BOOK
ROCKEFELLER CENTER NEW YORK 20, N. Y.
25c

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

Transcriber's Note

The chemical symbol for carbon dioxide is shown as
CO_2 to represent subscript 2.

In the following compound words, the hyphen was
removed to conform to majority use in text:
exhaust-blast exhaust blast
jet-motors jet motors
jet-planes jet planes
pilot-gyros pilot gyros
space-travel space travel
wing-flaps wing flaps

The following compounds, with and without a hyphen, were
left as found because of equal prevalence of both forms:
blood-stained bloodstained
wood-blocks wood blocks

One compound was split since joined it suggested an
inapposite meaning:
cherrystone cherry stone

A host of compounds were left both hyphenated and separate
depending on their part of speech, for example:
science-fiction science fiction
(adjective) (noun)

One typo was corrected:
spendid splendid

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