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Name: Time for the Stars

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Year: 1956
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Popularity: 2.6
Genres/categories: Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure

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ISBN:
9780345293893
9780345301864
9780345323859
9780345351913
9780684192116
9780765314932
9780765314949
0345293894
0345301862
0345323858
0345351916
068419211X
0765314932
0765314940
This is one of the classic titles originally know as the "Heinlein Juveniles," written in the 1950 and published for the young adult market. It has since been in print for 50 years in paperback, and now returns to hardcover for a new generation.
Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solution--human telepathy.
Identical twins Tom and Pat are enlisted to be the human radios that will keep the ships in contact with Earth. The only problem is that one of them has to stay behind, and that one will grow old while the other explores the depths of space.Always a master of insight into the human consequences of future technologies, this is one of Heinlein's triumphs.
This book is part of the "Heinlein's Juveniles" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
Farmer in the Sky
First published 1950
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, Pop Rating:3/10
Space Cadet
First published 1948
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, Original Star Rating:
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, Pop Rating:2.8/10
Red Planet
First published 1949
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, Original Star Rating:
, Adjustred Star Rating:
, Pop Rating:3.1/10
Starman Jones
First published 1953
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, Original Star Rating:
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, Pop Rating:2.9/10
The Rolling Stones
First published 1952
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, Original Star Rating:
, Adjustred Star Rating:
, Pop Rating:2.6/10
Citizen of the Galaxy
First published 1957
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, Pop Rating:4.2/10
Tunnel in the Sky
First published 1955
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, Original Star Rating:
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, Pop Rating:4/10
The Star Beast
First published 1954
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, Original Star Rating:
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, Pop Rating:2.6/10
Have Space Suit, Will Travel
First published 1958
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, Pop Rating:5/10
Rocket Ship Galileo
First published 1947
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, Pop Rating:2.3/10
Between Planets
First published 1951
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, Original Star Rating:
, Adjustred Star Rating:
, Pop Rating:2.3/10

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