Robert A Heinlein
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Description
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people-a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic-who become the movement's leaders, and of Mike, the supercomputer...
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After crashing his car in 1939, Naval Airman Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes in the economy, legal system, and the relationships between men and women, in a remarkable, long-lost first novel by the late master of speculative fiction.
5) Space cadet
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Description
A young man reports for the final tests for appointment as a cadet in the Interplanetary Patrol, survives the tests, studies in the school ship, and goes on a regular Patrol vessel and encounters danger on Venus.