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Starman Jones by Heinlein, Robert A is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Starman Jones about?
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.В What Max does have going for him are his uncleвЂTMs prized astrogation manuals—book on star navigation that Max literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation. When MaxвЂTMs mother decides to remarry a bullying oaf, Max takes to the road, only to discover that his uncle ChetвЂTMs manuals, and MaxвЂTMs near complete memorization of them, is a ticket to the stars. But serving on a spaceship is no easy task.В Duty is everything, and a mistake can mean you and all aboard are lost forever. Max loves every minute of his new life, and he steadily grows in the trust of his superior officers, and seems to be on course for a command track position. But then disaster strikes, and itвЂTMs going to take every trick Max ever learned from his tough life and his uncleвЂTMs manuals to save himself and the ship from a doom beyond extinction itself.В В From the First Golden Age of Heinlein, this is the so-called juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as much
Who reads Starman Jones?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Heinlein, Robert A
- Publisher
- Baen Books ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781451637496
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Children'S, Science Fiction
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (5,839 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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