![]() ![]() ![]() alongside Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. ![]() I think I still have four or five Heinlein juvies I haven't read yet. 101 top sci-fi films of all time, including classics like Dune, Star Wars. And messages that may seem vital to those on a starship may not be as important to a child being called to the table. The author follows the element of human beings functioning as communication devices to a fascinating end: People have lives apart from the noble exploration of the stars, particularly the telepath left behind on Earth and has to interrupt work or a date or class to take a message. But stock Heinlein stuff is almost always damn good stuff. Time for the Stars is in many ways a typical Heinlein "juvenile" novel - stock Heinlein characters, with many of the Heinleinesque tropes, such as red hair, twins, and an obsession with the long view. Tom and Pat are one of several identical twins who have to decide who goes to the stars and who stays. One issue with this is communication with ships light-years away, and they scramble a project to find telepairs - mostly identical twins - after the discovery that telepathy is instantaneous breaks quietly. The Long Range Foundation funds unlikely ventures, one of which is space travel to distant stars. I started this because I needed a book to take on tour, and didn't feel like carrying the heavy hardback I'm in the middle of reading. It seems odd I haven't read this one until now. ![]()
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