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3 reviews
Robert A. Heinlein

Ballantine Books, 1975

One of Heinlein's Best
Starman Jones is one of Heinlein's best, along with Space Cadet, Tunnel in the Sky, Time For The Stars...well it's one of his top ten best. The enthralling account of an orphan escaping abusive step parents by stowing away on a starship kept me reading and thinking and dreaming which continued the second and third time through. It's a well-written coming of age story and precursor to Star Trek ...

Starman Jones

10 reviews
Robert A. Heinlein

Pocket, 2005

Impressions, plus a bit of speculation
I reread this book recently after nearly thirty years since my first reading, as a high school student. I was amazed at how much I remembered. It must have had quite an impact on my young mind because so much of it came back as I read. Unlike the story's protagonist, my memory for past reading is abysmal. This story is wonderfully crafted. I had to check the publication date a couple of ...

Starman Jones

17 reviews
Robert A. Heinlein

Yestermorrow Inc, 1999

Excellent
It is to be regretted that some of the other reviewers on Amazon.com gave away spoilers. It is also unfortunate that Heinlein has received a lot of press for some of the worst things he wrote for an adult audience, such as _Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land_. His genius was in his "juvenile novels" -- the stories he wrote for serialization in boy scout magazines, later published as books. Max Jones ...

To The Stars - Between Planets; Rolling Stones; Starman Jones; Star Beast

1 review
Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction Book Club, 2004

re-prints for re-reading
"To the Stars" is a collection of Heinlein Juveniles from the 1950's: "Between Planets" & "The Rolling Stones" are interplanetary in scope; "Starman Jones" & "The Star Beast", interstellar. Each is completely independent, but they all fit comfortably within Heinlein's Future History, in which Mankind explores the Solar system and then moves outward "To the Stars" (another collection of ...