The book was in perfect condition and delivered to me in a very short time. I've been trying to get a copy of 'The Star Beast' for a long time. The price asked was also excellent
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To the Stars (2004) is an SF omnibus, containing Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones and The Star Beast. These classic novels are all within the Juvenile series, a subset of the Future History universe. They involve young men who are faced with responsibilities beyond their years. Even Castor and Pollux are required to take on some responsibilities. These tales are in internal chronological order based on...
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This book would be a great gift for a youngster who was starting to like science fiction or to an adult who read the books as a youngster and wanted to cherish them. I fall into the latter category and was very happy to get the collection, even though I had copies of three of the books in paperback. I have written reviews of all four of the books elsewhere but I will give a one-liner about each here. Between Planets: A...
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"To the Stars" (2004) contains four of Robert A. Heinlein's Juveniles. Each of these stories is worth a four star rating. "Between Planets" (1951): Don Harvey, a teenager going to school in New Mexico, gets a message from his parents, on Mars. They want him to come to Mars. This turns out to be difficult. Don gets to Venus first, in the middle of a war! "The Rolling Stones" (1952): Castor and Pollux Stone are teenaged...
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This new publication combines four of The Master's juveniles from his early career in an anthology that would make a great any-occasion present for that budding young scientist and/or space pioneer, or for a life long fan as myself. I've read each of these at least a dozen times in my fifty-odd years, and there seems like something new to be discovered with each reading! 1. "Between Planets": the story of the son of interplanetary...
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