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STARMAN JONES
STARMAN JONES
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Where were they? In fact, when were they? and how could they get back? — It's easy to stow away on an intergalactic spaceship, if you're a smart lad like Max Jones. But it's quite another thing when the spaceship touches down on an unknown planet after passage through a time warp...perhaps an unknown century. Especially when the spaceship's pilot...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345301048
ISBN-10: 0345301048
Publication Date: 9/12/1981
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3.6 stars, based on 10 ratings
Publisher: Del Rey
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 1
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I really liked this book. The book was copyrighted in 1953 and was fun reading the description of how computers were used aboard a spacecraft. Great writer.
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Technologically, this book is a bit dated, obviously (slide rules? books full of numerical tables that a modern cell phone could store in 1% of 1% of its memory?). But as a yarn, it's great, worthy of the Dean of American Science Fiction. I'd rate this towards the top of his "lesser" novels, up there with "Citizen of the Galaxy."
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