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Starman Jones Information
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Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy with an eidetic memory who wants to go to the stars. It was first published by Scribner's as part of the Heinlein...


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The Washington Post
Blasting Off With Ziggy; 30-Year-Old 'Bowie at the Beeb' Sessions Chronicle the Birth of a Starman
10/18/2000: 527 words, approx. 2 pages
If David Bowie is indeed a pop music chameleon, then lately he has been doing a great job of blending into the background. He has all but disappeared against a constantly changing backdrop of current fads. Of course, this all may be part of...
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The Washington Post
David Bowie, Unmasked; Rock's Starman, Peeling Back the Layers and Finding Himself
04/26/1987: 3,336 words, approx. 11 pages
"If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't do any of it," says a pensive David Bowie. A moment later, a smiling David Bowie changes his mind. "I retract that. I would do lots of it." There you have...


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
135 words, approx. 1 pages
Starman Jones first published in America in 1953, is the story of a poor farm boy who longs to be an "astrogater", makes his way on to the space ship Asgard, duly gets his chance, and finishes the voyage as acting captain. The scope for wishful self-identification on the reader's part is obviously enormous. The tour de force of this novel is the hero's initiation into the mysteries of the ship's control room; so assured and absorbing are the author's descriptions th...


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