Starman Jones - Robert A. Heinlein

Starman Jones

ByRobert A. Heinlein

  • Release Date: 2013-01-30
  • Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 131 Ratings

Description

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 ever 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. But serving on a spaceship is no easy task. 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 it's going to take every trick Max ever learned from his tough life and his uncle's manuals to save himself and the ship from a doom beyond extinction itself.

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Reviews

  • I love this book

    5
    By AlexCarney121
    It’s a parable. It’s a metaphor. It’s an example of becoming a man, an adult. Simple, elegant, clear. Heinlein at his best.
  • Never gets old.

    5
    By 1dweeb
    You can read this one more than once and still enjoy it.
  • Ageless book for all ages!

    5
    By Honest Review 2
    I first read this book in Jr. High, about 1963. Have read all of Heinlens books and have found them to be entertaining at every age. Loved it then...loved now.

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