If one is going to republish Heinlein I would have thought it ought to be something like Glory Road, but Rocketship Galileo … was an inspired choice. This is pure nostalgia, from the world of Mecanix Illustrated and Authentic Science Fiction. It is the story of three bright young high school kids and their brainy scientist uncle who just get together and build a moon rocket. An air-force general was once asked what he expected to find on the moon and he replied 'Russians'. Ross, Maurice, Art and uncle Donald Cargreaves go one better; they find the Fourth Reich. A bunch of fanatical Nazis are about to use the moon as a base to drop atom bombs on the earth. Our lot thwart them just in time. Lovely.
Alex de Jonge, in his review of "Rocketship Galileo," in The Spectator (© 1977 by The Spectator; reprinted by permission of The Spectator), Vol. 239, No. 7778, July 30, 1977, p. 22.
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