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Time for the Stars (Heinlein's Juvenile series, Bk 10) With over-population stretching the resources of Earth, the need to find and colonize other Terra-type planets is becoming crucial to the survival of the human race. Travel to other planets is a reality but time-consuming and costly. The scientists at the Long Range Foundation create the remarkable Torchships. With no time to wait years for communication between slower-than-light spaceships and home, the Long Range Foundation explores an unlikely solution...human telepathy. Tom and Pat are recruited by LRF to become the human transmitters and receivers for the mission. Growing up together they had felt like they were so similar, so in sync, that it was almost as if they read each other's minds. Only to discover, that was indeed what they could do. Along with other telepathic pairings, their abilities are tested, and it is discovered that time nor distance impedes their connection; communication between Earth and the Torchships would be instantaneous. But there is a catch: during the course of the mission, while one of them stays behind and grows old, on Earth, the other will be traversing the stars, and, if he survives, will return a young man.
Time for the Stars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein first published by Scribner's in 1956 as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The basic plot line is derived from a 1911 thought experiment in special relativity, commonly called the twin paradox, proposed by French physicist Paul Langevin. "The word that comes to mind for Heinlein is essential. As a writer, eloquent, impassioned, technically innovative, he reshaped science fiction in the way that defined it for every writer who followed him. He was the most significant science fiction writer since H. G. Wells." Robert Silverberg
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Time for the Stars
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A novel by the four-times winner of the Hugo Award. Earth has become overcrowded. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system, but the planets are frozen or burning or airless, unsuited to homo sapiens. As the demand for living space grows, it becomes ever more urgently "time for the stars". The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR004594790
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