by Robert A. Heinlein
Tunnel in the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein Tunnel in the Sky is a perfect specimen of post Golden Age 1950's sci-fi. It's like an episode of old-school Star Trek in written form and I imagined the main character, Rod, as a very young William Shatner throughout the entire book. Does it make me ponde...
This is one of Heinlein's "juvenile" novels centered upon and written for teens. Rod Walker and other teens start out taking a basic survival test, but something goes wrong and they're stranded on a deserted jungle planet. The novel has been described as the inverse of Lord of the Flies and I even s...
Humans are colonising the galaxy, thanks not to rocket ships capable of taking us to remote star systems, but gateways through hyperspace that allow us to travel anywhere in an instant. But before people are allowed to start a new life in a frontier world, they must take survival classes which culmi...
The final for a high school Survival Class is for the class to survive on another planet for 2-10 days with only what they can carry on their person. Unfortunately, the gate between earth and the planet is broken, leaving the students to fend for themselves for 2 years. They create their own city wi...
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