Boxed set comprising: Red Planet (1949) Young Martian colonist Jim Marlow and his Martian pet Willis head to an oppresive boarding school on Mars. Farmer in the Sky (1950) After his mother dies, Bill Lermer agrees to trying a new life on Ganymede with his father and a new step-family. Between Planets (1951) With imminent interplanetary war, Don Harvey’s parents send a message for him to leave boarding school on Earth quickly, but the only berth he can get takes him to Venus with no money and no acquaintances except the Venus dragon “Sir Isaac Newton.” Starman Jones (1953) Young Max Jones can no longer live at home, but where will his uncanny mathematical ability get him as a novice crewman on a space ship? Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958) Kip Russell isn’t satisfied with winning a spacesuit in a soap contest. He has to get it into working order, and into outer space.
Author
Works of American science-fiction writer Robert Anson Heinlein include Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966). People often call this novelist "the dean of science fiction writers", one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction." He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the standards of literary quality of the genre. He was the first science-fiction writer to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s. He was also among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. Also wrote under Pen names: Anson McDonald, Lyle Monroe, Caleb Saunders, John Riverside and Simon York.
