Branley, Franklyn M
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1915-2002) US scientist and author, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, 1968-1972. Most of his approximately 200 works of nonfiction, many of them concerning Astronomy and Space Flight, were written for the Young Adult market [see highly selected list below]. His one sf novel, the Young Adult Lodestar, Rocket Ship to Mars: The Record of the First Operation Sponsored by the Federal Commission for Interplanetary Exploration (1951) describes a Rocket voyage to Mars in 1971 and details the young protagonist's adventures as youngest of the three-man crew. The vision of Mars presented is reasonably accurate for the period and the novel served as a respectable introduction to sf for youth of the era. [GSt]
Franklyn Mansfield Branley
born New Rochelle, New York: 5 June 1915
died Brunswick, Maine: 5 May 2002
works
- Lodestar, Rocket Ship to Mars: The Record of the First Operation Sponsored by the Federal Commission for Interplanetary Exploration (New York: Thomas Y Crowell, 1951) [hb/]
nonfiction (highly selected)
- Experiments in the Principles of Space Travel (New York: Thomas Y Crowell, 1955) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Exploring by Satellite: The Story of Project Vanguard (New York: Thomas Y Crowell, 1957) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Planets in Our Solar System (New York: Harper/Torch, 1987) [nonfiction: pb/]
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