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    Time for the Stars

    By Robert A. Heinlein

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    “Rarely has Heinlein pushed his imagination further…a vivid, stirring experience.”—Chicago Tribune

    “One of the superb Heinlein stories that has excitement, urbanity, humanity, rationality, pace, understanding, and is a joy to read.”—The New York Times

    With over-population stretching the resources of Earth, the need to find and colonize other Terra-type planets is becoming crucial to the survival of the human race. But finding these planets is time-consuming and very costly.

    With a seemingly inexhaustible budget, the scientists at the Long Range Foundation create the remarkable Torchships, which are able to traverse to different Star Systems within the matter of months. However, communication between Earth and these ships would still take countless years—even decades. How would they alert Earth of the planets they find?

    Tom and Pat are recruited by LRF to become the human transmitters and receivers for the mission. Growing up together they had felt like they were so similar, so in sync, that it was almost as if they read each other’s minds…. Only to discover, that was indeed what they could do. Along with other telepathic pairings, their abilities are tested, and it is discovered that time nor distance impedes their connection; communication between Earth and the Torchships would be instantaneous.

    But there is a catch: during the course of the mission, while one of them stays behind and grows old, on Earth, the other will be traversing the stars, and—if he survives—will return a young man.

    “The word that comes to mind for him is essential. As a writer—eloquent, impassioned, technically innovative—he reshaped science fiction in the way that defined it for every writer who followed him…. He was the most significant science fiction writer since H. G. Wells.”—Robert Silverberg

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhoenix Pick
    Release dateDec 16, 2016
    ISBN9781612423319
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    Robert A. Heinlein

    Robert A. Heinlein, four-time winner of the Hugo Award and recipient of three Retro Hugos, received the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. His worldwide bestsellers have been translated into twenty-two languages and include Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. His long-lost first novel, For Us, the Living, was published by Scribner and Pocket Books.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent adventure. Truly a book of a master. Couldn't put it down
    • 5/5
      I first read this book about sixty years ago and have read it again a few times in the intervening years. How wonderful to find it in few seconds on Scribd and read it for probably the last time on a tablet - a device that would not have seemed out of place in Heinlein's universe.
    • 5/5
      How to rate this... It's Heinlein, which is never bad. It's also 1950's SF, which is sometimes terrible. The ideas, both scientifically and socially, are incredible. If the writing and attitudes are dated (and they are), then blame the attitudes of 65 years ago, when it was written.

      If you can, ignore the way the words are put together, and look instead at the intent. This novel is a salute to a more noble future, as well as a prayer that we'll make it there. Hopefully, we will.

      Recommended.

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