Bob Tucker 
Prison Planet [EPUB ebook] 

To remain on Mars meant death from agonizing space-sickness, but Earth-surgery lay days of flight away. And there was only a surface rocket in which to escape—with a traitorous Ganymedean for its pilot.
Wilson “Bob” Tucker was a well known sf writer who coined the term Space Opera and his frequent use of friends name’s for minor characters in his work lead to the term tuckerization to describe the phenominon