Notes
Islands in the Sky, a novel by Arthur C. Clarke.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1964 Digit Books paperback edition. Cover illustration by R.A.O.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
Roy Malcolm is the surprised winner of a T.V. contest sponsored by World Airways and for his prize chooses to go to the Inner Station – a rocket base hundreds of miles above the Earth. After undergoing a searching aptitude and physical fitness test, he finds himself en route for the Station – little expecting the terrifying mysteries and hazards he was to encounter when he arrived.