Bibliograph

Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein

Type

Label

Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Starman Jones

Oclc number

795182053

Responsibility statement

Robert A. Heinlein

Summary

The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the arcane Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was every going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle's prized astrogation manuals - books on star navigation that Max literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation. When Max's mother decides to remarry a bullying oaf, Max takes to the road, only to discover that his uncle Chet's manuals, and Max's near complete memorization of them, is a ticket to the stars! From the "First Golden Age" of Heinlein, this is the so-called juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as much for adults) that started them all and made Heinlein a legend for multiple generations of readers

Target audience

adult

Classification