Farmer in the sky

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Science Fiction / Heinlein, Robert A.	4-week checkout	Due 05-18-2024
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Science Fiction / Heinlein, Robert A.	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024

Published, in condensed form, in Boy's life magazine under title: Satellite scout.
Includes an "Afterword"; Terraforming Ganymede: science and technology in Robert A. Heinlein's Farmer in the sky, by Dr. Jim Woosley, c2008.
Includes excerpt from The puppet masters.
Introduction / William H. Patterson -- Farmer in the sky / Robert A. Heinlein: Earth -- The green-eyed monster -- Space ship Bifrost -- Captain DeLongPre -- Captain Harkness -- E=MC² -- Scouting in space -- Trouble -- The moons of Jupiter -- The promised land -- "Share croppers" -- Bees and zeroes -- Johnny Appleseed -- Land of my own -- Why did we come? -- Line up -- Disaster --Pioneer party -- The other people -- Home -- Afterword: Terraforming Ganymede: science and technology in Robert A. Heinlein's Farmer in the sky / Jim Woosley.
A youth and his father emigrate from the mechanical and organized world on overpopulated Earth to become colonists on Ganymede, the third moon of Jupiter.
Contents: Terraforming Ganymede. -- Puppet masters.

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Not one of Heinlein's best submitted by GJBarnett2 on August 25, 2014, 8:03pm ... but any Heinlein is better than no Heinlein, even one of his "juveniles."

The Future of the Past submitted by kathscot on June 26, 2016, 10:33pm Interesting projection of how we might colonize our solar system. Any Boy Scout should enjoy the idea of Scoutin in space.