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Product Identifiers

PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co

ISBN-100765314932

ISBN-139780765314932

eBay Product ID (ePID)50786601

Product Key Features

Book TitleTime for the Stars

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / General

Publication Year2006

GenreFiction

AuthorRobert A. Heinlein

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight14.5 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsOne of the superb Heinlein stories which have excitement, urbanity, humanity, rationality, pace, understanding, and which are a joy to read., "One of the superb Heinlein stories which have excitement, urbanity, humanity, rationality, pace, understanding, and which are a joy to read."-- The New York Times on Time for the Stars "Rarely has Heinlein pushed his imagination further. . .a vivid, stirring experience." -- The Chicago Tribune on Time for the Stars, "One of the superb Heinlein stories which have excitement, urbanity, humanity, rationality, pace, understanding, and which are a joy to read."--"The New York Times" on "Time for the Stars" "Rarely has Heinlein pushed his imagination further. . .a vivid, stirring experience." --"The" "Chicago Tribune" on "Time for the Stars"

Grade FromSeventh Grade

Dewey Decimal[Fic]

SynopsisThis 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 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., For a telepathic twin on an exploratory space voyage only a few years pass, yet, when he returns to Earth his brother is ready to celebrate his ninetieth birthday.