Starman Jones
by Robert A. Heinlein /
2012 / English / EPUB
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From the First Golden Age of SF master Robert A. Heinlein, this is
the so-called juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as
much for adults) that started them all and made Heinlein a legend
for multiple generations of readers—with a new introduction and
afterword by popular military science fiction author Michael Z.
Williamson. A poor young man seeks his fortune in space and comes
of age a ship’s officer and hero.
From the First Golden Age of SF master Robert A. Heinlein, this is
the so-called juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as
much for adults) that started them all and made Heinlein a legend
for multiple generations of readers—with a new introduction and
afterword by popular military science fiction author Michael Z.
Williamson. A poor young man seeks his fortune in space and comes
of age a ship’s officer and hero.
The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either
needed connections, a membership in the Guild, or a whole lot more
money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was every going
to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle’s
prized astrogation manuals—book on star navigation that Max
literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation.
When Max’s mother decides to remarry a bullying oaf, Max takes to
the road, only to discover that his uncle Chet’s manuals, and Max’s
near complete memorization of them, is a ticket to the stars. But
serving on a spaceship is no easy task. Duty is everything,
and a mistake can mean you and all aboard are lost forever. Max
loves every minute of his new life, and he steadily grows in the
trust of his superior officers, and seems to be on course for a
command track position. But then disaster strikes, and it’s going
to take every trick Max ever learned from his tough life and his
uncle’s manuals to save himself and the ship from a doom beyond
extinction itself.
The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either
needed connections, a membership in the Guild, or a whole lot more
money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was every going
to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle’s
prized astrogation manuals—book on star navigation that Max
literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation.
When Max’s mother decides to remarry a bullying oaf, Max takes to
the road, only to discover that his uncle Chet’s manuals, and Max’s
near complete memorization of them, is a ticket to the stars. But
serving on a spaceship is no easy task. Duty is everything,
and a mistake can mean you and all aboard are lost forever. Max
loves every minute of his new life, and he steadily grows in the
trust of his superior officers, and seems to be on course for a
command track position. But then disaster strikes, and it’s going
to take every trick Max ever learned from his tough life and his
uncle’s manuals to save himself and the ship from a doom beyond
extinction itself.
From the First Golden Age of Heinlein, this is the so-called
juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as much for adults)
that started them all and made Heinlein a legend for multiple
generations of readers.
From the First Golden Age of Heinlein, this is the so-called
juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as much for adults)
that started them all and made Heinlein a legend for multiple
generations of readers.About Robert A. Heinlein:
About Robert A. Heinlein: “Not only America's premier
writer of speculative fiction, but the great writer of such fiction
in the world.”—
“Not only America's premier
writer of speculative fiction, but the great writer of such fiction
in the world.”—Stephen King
Stephen King
“One of the grand masters of science fiction.”—
“One of the grand masters of science fiction.”—Wall Street
Journal
Wall Street
Journal
