- Science fiction, Fiction in English, Large type books, Juvenile fiction
Three teenagers and an older scientist develop their own atomic rocket, solve their own space problems and blast off for the moon in spite of mysterious setbacks.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- First published
- 1947
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- New English Library, Blackstone Audio Inc., Atheneum
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780450006951
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“"Everybody all set?" Young Ross Jenkins glanced nervously at his two chums.”
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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