Space Station Ice-3

by Bruce Coville

Book Overview

Rusty McPhee has discovered a dead body being dissolved in the Waste Converter Tanks of Space Station ICE-3. But the body is fully converted before he can show it to anyone, and no one will believe... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671536419
• ISBN13: 9780671536411
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Archway Paperbacks
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Space Station ICE 3

Space Station I.C.E. 3 Imagine yourself in a space station in the middle of nowhere. You find a body in the waste disposal tank, but when you call the space police they find no remains of the body. To make matters worse the computer says that all 25,000 are alive and accounted for. Rusty Mcphee is a working teenager who has a new job: To try to find out who put the body in the waste disposal tank. While he is the killer is now trying to kill him! Will Rusty make it out alive? The rest of Bruce Coville's book is about Rusty's daring escapes from the deadly traps. Space Station I.C.E. 3 is my favorite book by far because of its action, horror, suspense, space adventure and a tad of that `mushy' stuff. I recommend this book to whoever is into space. I also recommend adults to give this book to their kids (at least it will keep them quiet). I've read this book 3 times and it gets better each time. The only part I find confusing about it is when Rusty is in a room with the killer and his assistant- I just can't seem to remember who is talking to who. So start reading and have a whole lot of spaceman fun.

Suspense makes up for the lack of description.

It was June 27, 2018 when Rusty Mcphee found the body in the waste tank. This started an adventure that would take him all over the space colony he calls home. Whose body was it? Where was it from? Read the book to find out. The power from this book came not from it's rather primitive description, but from it's undying suspense. I'm afraid saying, "One more chapter and I'm done reading for tonight," is not a thing you can say and then do. Instead of answering questions, Bruce Coville simply piles more on. Eventually, the story becomes more of a mystery than the science fiction it appears to be, while retaining an almost "spooky" sci-fi atmosphere. I don't care much for mysteries, but this book, which you could almost call one, really got my full attention. Perhaps this had something to do with the fact that it isn't every day you find a boy who discovers a body, works for a "mad scientist" on a space colony, and, to top it off, finds that the body he surely saw is alive and accounted for by the colony's massive computer. This means one of two things: He's wrong, or perhaps something malfunctioned in the computer. However, Rusty fears that someone in the colony is an intelligent murderer who can cover up his, or her, footsteps. All questions are revealed by the end of this read. I would reccomend this book as a shorter story between long novels for avid readers or as a laid back book for those who don't read as often. I definitely enjoyed this book, despite the description it lacked. I would suggest this book to a late elementary or middle school student and possibly even an adult. This book ought to be a "must read" for suspense fans.