HOME View All Genre

Book

Audiobook

GENRES 🌙 Dark

Starman Jones - Robert A. Heinlein

By Robert A. Heinlein

Release Date: 2008-08-14

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

(0 ratings)
Preview Intro
1
Starman Jones Robert A. Heinlein
Play Full Download
The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the arcane Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was ever going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle’s prized astrogation manuals—books on star navigation that Max literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation. When Max’s mother decides to remarry a bullying oaf, Max takes to the road, only to discover that his uncle Chet’s manuals, and Max’s near complete memorization of them, is a ticket to the stars. But serving on a spaceship is no easy task.  Duty is everything, and a mistake can mean you and all aboard are lost forever. Max loves every minute of his new life, and he steadily grows in the trust of his superior officers. He seems to be on course for a command track position—but then disaster strikes, and it’s going to take every trick Max ever learned from his tough life and his uncle’s manuals to save himself and the ship from a doom beyond extinction itself.  

From the First Golden Age of Heinlein, this is the so-called juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as much for adults) that started them all and made Heinlein a legend for multiple generations of readers.

Starman Jones - Robert A. Heinlein

By Robert A. Heinlein

Release Date: 2008-08-14

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

(0 ratings)
Play Full Download
The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the arcane Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was ever going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle’s prized astrogation manuals—books on star navigation that Max literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation. When Max’s mother decides to remarry a bullying oaf, Max takes to the road, only to discover that his uncle Chet’s manuals, and Max’s near complete memorization of them, is a ticket to the stars. But serving on a spaceship is no easy task.  Duty is everything, and a mistake can mean you and all aboard are lost forever. Max loves every minute of his new life, and he steadily grows in the trust of his superior officers. He seems to be on course for a command track position—but then disaster strikes, and it’s going to take every trick Max ever learned from his tough life and his uncle’s manuals to save himself and the ship from a doom beyond extinction itself.  

From the First Golden Age of Heinlein, this is the so-called juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as much for adults) that started them all and made Heinlein a legend for multiple generations of readers.

More by Robert A. Heinlein

Starship Troopers

Stranger in a Strange Land

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Methuselah's Children (Unabridged)

Revolt in 2100 (Unabridged)

Beyond This Horizon (Unabridged)

Farmer in the Sky (Unabridged)

Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long (The Future History Series)

X Minus One: Complete

Friday

The Man Who Sold the Moon (Unabridged)

Double Star

The Cat Who Walks through Walls

“All You Zombies—”: Five Classic Stories

Citizen of the Galaxy

Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Glory Road

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929–1964: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America

The Door into Summer

The Number of the Beast

Red Planet

Waldo & Magic, Inc. (Unabridged)

Orphans of the Sky (The Future History Series)

The Star Beast

The Puppet Masters

Sixth Column

Starman Jones

Space Cadet

Time for the Stars

Job: A Comedy of Justice

The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel about Parallel Universes

To Sail beyond the Sunset: The Life and Loves of Maureen Johnson (Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady)

Rocket Ship Galileo

Between Planets

I Will Fear No Evil

The Rolling Stones

For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

Starship Troopers

Farnham’s Freehold

Tunnel in the Sky

Tunnel in the Sky: Heinlein's Juveniles, Book 9 (Unabridged)

The Classic Collection of Robert A. Heinlein

The Menace from Earth, and Other Stories

Vintage Sci-Fi 8 - 29 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Jack Williamson and more

Variable Star

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

Assignment in Eternity

The Classic Collection of Robert A. Heinlein. Fourteen Short Stories

Podkayne of Mars

The Green Hills of Earth (The Future History Series)

Related Articles