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Starman Jones
Starman Jones
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Where were they? — In fact, when were they? — And how could they get back? — It?s easy to stow away on an intergalactic spaceship if you?re a smart lad like Max Jones. — But it?s quite another thing when the spaceship touches down on an unknoqn planet after passage through a time warp . . . perhaps. In an unknown century. — Especially when the spaces...  more »
ISBN: 269941
Publication Date: 8/1975
Pages: 252
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: 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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