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When a practical joke gets him kicked out of school, Rick Luban thinks he has nowhere to go. Instead, he gets a second chance--and a life of adventure--when he signs up for a career in asteroid mining. The mining company has its own system of turning boys into men, the "higher education" of the title.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, contemporary and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Charles Sheffield
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- Sine nomine, Tor
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312861742
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