Space Cadet
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780765314505 (0765314509)
ASIN: 765314509
Publish date: November 29th 2005
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Juvenile,
Space,
Adult,
War,
Military,
Space Opera
This is one of Heinlein's "juveniles"--that is, what we now call young adult. I tend to prefer quite a few of those to his adult novels such as Stranger in a Strange Land. I wouldn't count this among his best in that category though--of which my favorite is Citizen of the Galaxy. I'd say it's only a...
Books written about the future inevitably at some point become alternate histories. First published in 1948, "Space Cadet" builds a post-2100 solar system where Venus is not only habitable, but inhabited, where Mars and Ganymede are colonisable, and spaceships are rocket-shaped and can take a coupl...
Young Matt Dodson, an all-American 18-year-old from Iowa, joins the Space Academy. Their key task is to ensure world peace by dropping nuclear weapons on anyone who tries to do anything bad.I know what you're going to say. But many of Matt's classmates come from outside the US! Not only that, they e...
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