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 Between Planets - Robert Heinlein
Description: ISBN 1416555641 / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy Newest Review: ... in the 1950's, his description of the planet Venus as capable of sustaining both human life and an intelligent race of ... more  ... dragons was not impossible. That we have since learned that there are no other planets in our solar system which are friendly to life as we know it is unimportant -- we'll someday find planets in other solar systems that are, and Heinlein wrote about that possibility in other of his books such as Starman Jones. But what makes Between Planets so memorable is the portrait Heinlein painted of the planet earth as politically repressed: where you can't make a phone call without a government agency like today's Na...more |
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Format: Paperback, ISBN: 9781416555643
Pages: 240, Paperback, Baen Books,U.S. - Books/Subjects/Science F ... |
£ 7,19 |
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Between Planets was one of the first Heinlein books I read, when I was ten or eleven years old. I never counted how many times I've re-read it since, but if it's over fifty or a hundred times, at least half of them as an adult, it wouldn't surprise me. This is Heinlein writing adventure with the best of the classics -- Robert Louis Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, and Stephen Crane included. When Heinlein wrote it in the 1950's, his description of the planet Venus as capable of sustaining both human life and an intelligent race of dragons was not impossible. That we have since learned that there are no other planets in our solar system which are friendly to life ...
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