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A science fiction novel for young readers by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (August, September, October 1958) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958.
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Classical in form, resolved, effortless and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Macmillan Pub Co, Hodder & Stoughton General Division, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345301031
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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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