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Starman Jones
Starman Jones
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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 w...  more »
PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9781451638448
ISBN-10: 1451638442
Publication Date: 9/25/2012
Pages: 336
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Baen
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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I really liked this book. The book was copyrighted in 1953 and was fun reading the description of how computers were used aboard a spacecraft. Great writer.
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Technologically, this book is a bit dated, obviously (slide rules? books full of numerical tables that a modern cell phone could store in 1% of 1% of its memory?). But as a yarn, it's great, worthy of the Dean of American Science Fiction. I'd rate this towards the top of his "lesser" novels, up there with "Citizen of the Galaxy."
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