Tunnel in the Sky

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Robert A. Heinlein: Tunnel in the Sky (Paperback, 1977, Del Ray, Ballantine)

mass market paperback, 214 pages

Published Jan. 1, 1977 by Del Ray, Ballantine.

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978-0-345-26065-9
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I liked most of the Heinlein Juveiniles, and this was the last to add to my library. I think I may have liked this the best. It certainly seemed one of the most believalbe of them all. returnreturnRod starts as a dual enrolled High School student in a survival class, like a hard core version of one of my ORLM courses from NMU. Many in class will quit before the final exam, two weeks on a far off planet with no information on where they are going. returnreturnThe "Tunnel in the Sky" that the title references is apparently whatever teh Heinelin Jiveinles universe equivelant of the Stargate. I don't think I realized how many such variants on that duty exist, particularly as this is at lest 40 years before stargate was authored. returnRodturns up on his planet with nothing but a fear of the unkonw Stober he is warned of. …