5/13/2023 0 Comments Heinlein tunnel in the sky![]() ![]() ![]() They are told only that the challenges are neither insurmountable nor unreasonable. Students may team up and equip themselves with whatever gear they can carry, but are otherwise completely on their own. The final test of his Advanced Survival class is to stay alive on an unfamiliar planet for between two and ten days. THE STORY: Rod Walker is a high school student who dreams of becoming a professional colonist. Because colonizing requires practical infrastructure, the colonists employ “technology” from the frontier era, such as horses instead of tractors. ![]() However, the costs of operating the device mean that the colonies are isolated from Earth until they can produce goods to justify two-way trade. Juvenile novel # 9 Published in both hardcover and paperback that year by Scribner’s as part of the Heinlein juvenile series.īACKGROUND: The novel is set in the future, when overpopulation on Earth has been lessened after the invention of teleportation, called the “Ramsbotham jump”, which is used to send Earth’s excess population to colonize other planets. ![]()
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