Robert A Heinlein
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English
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The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964. This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors chosen for the Science Fiction Hall Fame are the...
23) Friday
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English
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Friday is a secret courier and ardent lover. Employed by a man she only knows of as "Boss," she is given the most awkward and dangerous cases, which take her from New Zealand to Canada, and through the new States of America's disunion, all the way out into the stars and the new colony of Botany Bay. Thrust into one calamity after another, she uses her enhanced wits and very many skills to evade, seduce or even kill her way out of any sticky situation...
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Scribner
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[1955]
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English
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A high school senior goes through the gate to an unknown planet for a two-to-ten day final exam in Advanced Survival, and realizes, after a period of fighting the elements and wildlife, that something has gone wrong with the gate and what was a brief survival exam is an endless struggle for life.
26) The star beast
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English
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Loved by the latest descendant of the starman who brought him to Earth to be a family pet, Lummox the alien beast eats a neighbor's cat and begins to grow to the point that he alarms authorities, who resolve to take Lummox away.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Based on the novel Starship troopers by Robert Heinlein that inspired the hit movie, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles is an animated sci-fi adventure featuring groundbreaking computer-generated visuals and non-stop combat action.
30) Starman Jones
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English
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When his step-mother marries a no-count man, a country lad joins a hobo and together they fake their way into the Space Stewards, Cooks, and Purser's Clerks brotherhood to get an opportunity for space travel in an age when only the wealthy are privileged.
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Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"All-new Introduction by Mark Van Name. Two classic Robert A. Heinlein novels in onevolume: The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky. Journeys intospace, one taking humans to space by hook or by crook, the other the classicfirst time tale of a generation vessel with passengers who do not realize theyare in a spaceship.Two classic Robert A. Heinlein novels in one volume, with an all-new introduction by Mark L. Van Name, author of the Jon and...
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1967]
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English
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Prophetic science fiction: Life-line; The Roads Must Roll; Blowups Happen; The Man Who Sold the Moon; Delilah and the Spacerigger; Space Jockey; Requiem; The Long Watch; Gentlemen, Be Seated; The Black Pits of Luna; "It's Great to Be Back!"; "We Also Walk Dogs"; Searchlight; Ordeal in Space; The Green Hills of Earth; Logic of Empire; The Menace from Earth; "If This Goes On ..."; Conventry; Misfit; and Methuselah's Children.
39) Space cadet
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English
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A young man reports for the final tests for appointment as a cadet in the Interplanetary Patrol, survives the tests, studies in the school ship, and goes on a regular Patrol vessel and encounters danger on Venus.