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Farmer in the Sky
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Farmer in the Sky Mass market paperbound - 2009

by Heinlein, Robert A

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  • Title Farmer in the Sky
  • Author Heinlein, Robert A
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Baen Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-06-30
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1361405-6
  • ISBN 9781439132777 / 1439132771
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.75 x 4.19 x 0.8 in (17.15 x 10.64 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Fathers and sons
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

1.      Heinlein wrote an amazing string of novels which made the New York Times best seller list and shipped over a million copies each, including Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, Friday, Job: A Comedy of Justice, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

2.      Over 25 million Heinlein books are in print in the U.S. alone. For over four decades, his Stranger in a Strange Land has been, not just one of the top-selling science fiction novels, but one of the top-selling novels, period.

3.      Stephen King has called Heinlein âÈêNot only AmericaâÈçs premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world.âÈë And Dean Koontz agrees: âÈêIf there is any single author who defines science fiction, it is Robert Heinlein . . . there is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein.âÈë

4.      Advertising in Locus, more.

5.      Includes teaser chapter for HeinleinâÈçs The Puppet Masters (trade paperback, 08/09).

6.      Cover by Hugo-winning artist Bob Eggleton pays homage to classics science fiction book covers.

7.      Heinlein backlist discounts.

The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family. Back on Earth, the move sounded like a grand adventure, but Bill soon realizes that life on the frontier is dangerous, and in an alien world with no safety nets, nature is cruelly unforgiving of even small mistakes. BillâÈçs new home is a world of unearthly wondersâÈ'and heartbreaking tragedy. He will face hardships, survive dangers, and grow up fast, meeting the challenge of opening up a new world for humanity and finding strengths within himself that he had never suspected existed.

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From the publisher

Robert A. Heinlein was the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived. His novels have been translated into every literate language on the globeâÈ'over 50 million Heinlein books are in print in this country alone.  For five decades, young readers of science fiction discovered Heinlein, then gone on to voraciously devour every Heinlein book they can get their hands on. His now-legendary Stranger in a Strange Land was the first hardcover bestseller by a science fiction writer. From 1975 on, every new Heinlein novel made the New York Times best-seller list and shipped a million copies, including The Number of the Beast, Friday, Job: A Comedy of Justice, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset. In a career spanning half a century, he wrote over forty books, and four of his novels won Hugo Awards, an unequalled record for almost four decades. For the last three generations of readers, Heinlein is science fiction.

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About the author

Robert A. Heinlein was the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived. His novels have been translated into every literate language on the globe--over 50 million Heinlein books are in print in this country alone. For five decades, young readers of science fiction discovered Heinlein, then gone on to voraciously devour every Heinlein book they can get their hands on. His now-legendary Stranger in a Strange Land was the first hardcover bestseller by a science fiction writer. From 1975 on, every new Heinlein novel made the New York Times best-seller list and shipped a million copies, including The Number of the Beast, Friday, Job: A Comedy of Justice, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset. In a career spanning half a century, he wrote over forty books, and four of his novels won Hugo Awards, an unequalled record for almost four decades. For the last three generations of readers, Heinlein is science fiction.

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