Farmer in the Sky
โ Scribed by Robert A Heinlein
- Publisher
- Baen;Ballantine Books
- Year
- 2010;1985
- Tongue
- UND
- Weight
- 124 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1439132771
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family. Back on Earth, the move sounded like a grand adventure, but Bill soon realizes that life on the frontier is dangerous, and in an alien world with no safety nets, nature is cruelly unforgiving of even small mistakes. Bills new home is a world of unearthly wondersand heartbreaking tragedy. He will face hardships, survive dangers, and grow up fast, meeting the challenge of opening up a new world for humanity and finding strengths within himself that he had never suspected existed.
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1. Heinlein wrote an amazing string of novels which made the *New York Times* best seller list and shipped over a million copies each, including *Time Enough for Love* , *The Number of the Beast* , *Friday* , *Job: A Comedy of Justice* , *The Cat Who Walks Through Walls* , and *To Sail Beyond the Su
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.
1. Heinlein wrote an amazing string of novels which made the *New York Times* best seller list and shipped over a million copies each, including *Time Enough for Love*, *The Number of the Beast*, *Friday*, *Job: A Comedy of Justice*, *The Cat Who Walks Through Walls*, and *To Sail Beyond the Sunset*
### From Wikipedia Farmer In The Sky is a 1953 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. A condensed version of the novel was published in serial form in 1950 in Boys' Life
SUMMARY: The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family. Back on Earth, the move sounded like a grand adventure, but Bill soon realizes that life on the frontier is dangerous, and in an alien