Rockets Galore (novel)

Rockets Galore is a 1957 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It is part of his sequence of Highland Novels, and its title echoes that of an earlier entry in the series, 1947's Whisky Galore, and sees the inhabitants of a remote Scottish island resist a government plan to build a missile base on their home. The author refers to it, in an Author's Note, as a 'bitter farce', as opposed to the 'genial farce' that Whisky Galore was.