About this title: The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family.
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Description: Very Good. 0345324382 Very Good-An excellent copy. Softcover. Pages sharp and clean. No marks or highlighting in text. Wear to the cover corner tips. Single light crease on spine. Cover lays flat. This book has NOT been marked as a remainder by the publisher. Accurate Descriptions with Fast Shipping and Robust Packaging. GRN116M. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780345324382ISBN:0345324382
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. A moderate amount of wear on Cover and interior pages. (W2) Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dell Books
Date Published: 1968
Description: Acceptable. Water warping edges, previous owner signature on top edge, cover wear FC and BC, but text itself clean and readable inside. - read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780345275967ISBN:0345275969
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice tight and clean copy. Light shelf wear. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
""Farmer in the Sky" is a Heinlein juvenile (today we'd call it Young Adult science fiction) about a plucky boy who joins the colonization effort on Ganymede to escape Earth's overcrowding, food rationing, and the memory of his recently deceased mother.
I'm sure lots of boys who read this in the fifties and sixties got hooked on SF (and possibly signed up for the Boy Scouts). For the present, I think this would be a good book to recommend to a young reader who's maybe not quite ready yet for something like Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars - think Ganymede instead of Mars, and boy scouts and pioneer-like farmers as opposed to a bunch of dysfunctional scientists.
I'm rating this book three stars, but I'm rating it the way I think its target audience would. For someone with an adult's knowledge and taste, this book is probably too simplistic, but I think an early-to-mid teenage boy would lap this up. It's a short and fast read with a bit of humor, some action, and just enough science to make it seem plausible to a young reader. While some of the mannerisms and expressions sound extremely dated now (the book is almost 60 years old), it's still a fun read. It has "wholesome" written all over it."
"This was originally was serialized in the Boy's Life (boy scout magazine) in the 1950s. It was intended as a young teen story. It is a bit dated, but isn't bad."
By Sean,
Titley, Kington, Herefordshire, The United Kingdom
"Despite its target of a juvenile audience,this was an enjoyably shallow read. Virtuous and frontiering, it's not got much in the way of grit and was probably an interesting magazine spread in the fifties."
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