Louis Slobodkin - Spaceship Under the Apple Tree series

bropous · 10-26-2002, 09:58 AM

I know this is REALLY juvenile fiction, but has anyone else read the Louis Slobodkin books? (Spaceship Under the Apple Tree, etc.) They were the first sci-fi I ever read, and I guess it drew me in immediately.

They are a series of books about a kid who meets a small alien from a planet called "Martinea" and who both attend Scout jamborees and interstellar conferences together. Admittedly I read the books back in the late sixties so they may not even be in print anymore, but I was curious as to whether anyone else read them and liked them.

cee2lee2 · 10-27-2002, 04:37 PM

Have never heard of them but they sound like fun stories. Perhaps more lighthearted than John Christopher's juvenile science fiction.

10-26-2002, 09:58 AM	#1
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Louis Slobodkin - Spaceship Under the Apple Tree series I know this is REALLY juvenile fiction, but has anyone else read the Louis Slobodkin books? (Spaceship Under the Apple Tree, etc.) They were the first sci-fi I ever read, and I guess it drew me in immediately. They are a series of books about a kid who meets a small alien from a planet called "Martinea" and who both attend Scout jamborees and interstellar conferences together. Admittedly I read the books back in the late sixties so they may not even be in print anymore, but I was curious as to whether anyone else read them and liked them. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. Last edited by bropous : 10-26-2002 at 09:59 AM.

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10-27-2002, 04:37 PM	#2
cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	Have never heard of them but they sound like fun stories. Perhaps more lighthearted than John Christopher's juvenile science fiction.