Heinlein, Robert A.: SPACE FAMILY STONE

This Heinlein venture into the unknown stars the Stones a moon-based, progressive familywhose "unheavenly twins," Castor and Pollux, buy a second-hand spaceship and steer the family through an eventful tri to the Asteroids.

The space family Stone encounters all sorts of obstacles, among them the Gravity Well and a "flat cat" from Mars. Their journey in "The Rolling Stone" bears a satirical resemblance to space serials on TV and, as the author tells it, pokes good-humoured fun at our inability to judge what is fantasy and what is fact in our conceptions of the Space Age.

AUTHOR:  Robert A. Heinlein

COVER: paperback

PAGES: 171

LANGUAGE: english