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In 1949, Heinlein wrote this story about an entrepreneur who foresaw that future of manned space flight could not be left to governments. His protagonist, D.D. Harriman, risked his reputation, his fortune and his very life to make his dream a reality.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 267
- Publisher
- New English Library, New American Library, Brand: Roc
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780451062338
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Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science
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