A Request
Cisco's Buddy
} I remember stories in "Boys Life" about time and/or space travel. This
} was a series of short stories; I wonder if it was ever reprinted as a
} book?
What you are undoubtedly thinking of is the "Time Machine" series. The
author was "Donald Keith", pseudonym of Donald Monroe & Keith Monroe,
though Keith Monroe wrote some of them on his own.
There were two novels published by Random House, the first for the Boys'
Life Library imprint, and the second for the Pedro Books imprint (Pedro
was the BOYS' LIFE mascot, a burro):
MUTINY IN THE TIME MACHINE 1963
THE TIME MACHINE TO THE RESCUE 1967
The first was originally published (in abridged form) as a 4-part serial
in BOYS' LIFE, December 1962 through March 1963 issues. The second was
probably also published as a serial, "The Time Machine Hunts a Treasure",
April through June 1967 issues. I have 2 of the 3 parts for that serial,
but without a copy of the second novel, I can't say for sure whether it
was an expanded version of the serial, or "fixed up" from separate stories.
Later stories that I either have or know about are:
DK "The King and the Time Machine" Aug 1971
DK "The Time Machine Cleans Up" Feb 1973
KM "The Time Machine Twins the Jamboree" Aug 1973
DK "Santa Claus and the Time Machine" Dec 1973
KM "The Time Machine Fights Earthquakes" Nov 1974
KM "The Time Machine Saves a Patriot" Apr 1975
"DK" means it was written as by Donald Keith, "KM" as by Keith Monroe.
Date, obviously, is the issue of BOYS' LIFE in which the story appeared.
There are undoubtedly a number of others that I don't have citations for,
but I can say with reasonable certainty that none appeared between 1977
and 1984, inclusive.
The Boys' Life Library/Random House also published an anthology of science
fiction stories that originally appeared in BOYS' LIFE, titled THE BOYS'
LIFE BOOK OF OUTER SPACE STORIES.
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--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)
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