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Farmer in the Sky Study Guide

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by Robert A. Heinlein
About 9 pages (2,625 words)
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Farmer in the Sky is a novel about pioneers, about youth and age, and about the boundaries of the human spirit. It challenges the reader to consider the very real possibility that the human race will soon embark upon a new era of exploration. This time, the frontier is space.

Pioneers of the future will need the same emotional and spiritual resources as those of the past. However difficult it may be to imagine actually populating another world, humans will undoubtedly take their personalities with them—all the bad traits as well as the good. This fact alone will make society in space similar in.....

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Farmer in the Sky from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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