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An edition of Farmer in the Sky (1950)

Farmer in the Sky

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  • ★★★ 3.2 (8 ratings)
  • 47 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 15 Have read

A youth and his father emigrate from the mechanical and organized world on overpopulated Earth to become colonists on Ganymede, the third moon of Jupiter.

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Baen Books
Language
English
Pages
290

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Subjects

American Science fiction, Scouting (Youth activity), Criticism and interpretation, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Coming of age, Science fiction, Space colonies, Farm life, award:retro_hugo, Fiction, science fiction, general, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Children's literature

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Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)

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Table of Contents

Introduction / William H. Patterson
Farmer in the sky / Robert A. Heinlein: Earth
The green-eyed monster
Space ship Bifrost
Captain DeLongPre
Captain Harkness
E=MCp2s
Scouting in space
Trouble
The moons of Jupiter
The promised land
"Share croppers"
Bees and zeroes
Johnny Appleseed
Land of my own
Why did we come?
Line up
Disaster
Pioneer party
The other people
Home
Afterword: Terraforming Ganymede: science and technology in Robert A. Heinlein's Farmer in the sky / Jim Woosley.

Edition Notes

Published, in condensed form, in Boy's life magazine under title: Satellite scout.

Includes an "Afterword"; Terraforming Ganymede: science and technology in Robert A. Heinlein's Farmer in the sky, by Dr. Jim Woosley, c2008.

Includes excerpt from The puppet masters.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Riverdale, NY, New York
Copyright Date
1977

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3515.E288 F37 2008

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Pagination
290 p. ;
Number of pages
290

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24370477M
ISBN 10
1439132771
ISBN 13
9781439132777
OCLC/WorldCat
369138918

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL59713W

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Work Description

Farmer In The Sky is a 1950 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenaged boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in the process of being terraformed.

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