Vacation in Space
by Leo P. Kelley

   Market report: targeted for poor readers (high action, low extra text)
   A Pacemaker Book, Pitman Learning, Inc. Galaxy 5, Copyright 1979

• 60 pages with 7 half-page ink drawings and 2 full page drawings
• 54.5 pages * 26 lines/page * 8 words/line ~ 11,000 words
• 6 chapters
  • Call from Earth. Estrata estranged. Go on vacation.
  • Space World - description, bar
  • On Vacation - game
  • Sybil on Voyager - earring trick, computer short circuit, swimming pool
  • Out of Order - "great windows" don't work; air game

 

• Stars for Breakfast
• Characters
  • Steve Estrata - new astronaut, "very nice"
  • Ellen Drake - small, smooth face, eyes hard
  • Don Chadrow - where did he come from? not explained; in other books? computer brain; partial working computer - strange
  • Sybil - "very beautiful"; hold/magic over Steve
  • Validoff - at Space School
  • Voyager - talks; "beautiful ship"; "very nice ship"
• 100 bodies for slave market; avoids term "suspended animation"
• The Voyager is to deliver 100 suspended bodies to a planet to start a colony. Steve suffers from cabin fever. On vacation, a "romantic" interest tries to hijack the ship and take the bodies to work slave mines.