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Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein | |
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About 100 pages (30,068 words) in 4 products |
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Robert A(nson) Heinlein | | Variant Name: |
Robert A(nson) Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein, Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, Simon York, Robert (Anson) Heinlein | | Birth Date: |
July 7, 1907 | | Death Date: |
May 8, 1988 | | Place of Birth: |
Butler, Missouri | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of Robert A(nson) Heinlein
15701 words, approx. 52.3 pages
 Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, a small town some sixty-five miles south of Kansas City. He and his six brothers and sisters were raised in Kansas City, where he attended grade school and high school, graudating from Central High in 1...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Tunnel in the Sky Information
983 words, approx. 3 pages
 Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by Robert A. Heinlein and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet. The themes of the...
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Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by H. H. Holmes
150 words, approx. 1 pages
"In science-fiction circles," says Willy Ley on the jacket of Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky … "it has become customary to use Robert A. Heinlein as the standard; unfortunately for most writers, that standard is too high." I agree wholeheartedly—with the addendum that the standard is sometimes a smidgin high for the Old Master himself. This story of high school students who are, for a senior seminar in Advanced Survival, translated to an unknown plane...
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Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein | |
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About 100 pages (30,068 words) in 4 products |
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