4.3
Fantasy & SciFi
The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the arcane Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was ever going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle’s prized astrogation manuals—books 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. He 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.
© 2008 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781481568333
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 13 november 2008
4.3
Fantasy & SciFi
The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the arcane Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was ever going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle’s prized astrogation manuals—books 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. He 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.
© 2008 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781481568333
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 13 november 2008
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Jonas
13 aug. 2023
Vilken mästare han var. Skriven 1953 men tidlös…
Alexander
9 apr. 2023
A bit old fashioned views on gender roles
R
28 maj 2023
Maby naive, and at times slow.Still it kept me company from start to end.
Blad
6 apr. 2023
Ett trevligt äventyr
Christina
25 sep. 2019
Just missing Double Star now. Maybe it will come as an audio soon? Love Heinlein :D
B.
10 juni 2023
Good non-technical SciFi adventure, Written in the 50's but still works.
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