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ORPHANS OF THE SKY
by Heinlein, Robert A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- A fine copy in a fine first printing dust jacket (with $3.50 price to front flap) with slight rubbing to corners and spine ends
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1964]. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in a fine first printing dust jacket (with $3.50 price to front flap) with slight rubbing to corners and spine ends and mild age darkening to white background of rear panel. (17080). Octavo, cloth. Part of Heinlein's "future history" series, first published as a two-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction in 1941 as "Universe" and "Common Sense." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-513. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1653-64.
Synopsis
‘The Proxima Centauri Expedition, sponsored by the Jordan Foundation in 2119, was the first recorded attempt to reach the nearer stars of this galaxy. Whatever its unhappy fate we can only conjecture...’ A whole society, complete with a strange, savage religion, superstitions, mutant outcasts, rigid class structures and an agricultural barter economy, hurtles through the void. It is an epic voyage whose purpose has been long forgotten. High Hoyland’s innate curiosity impels him to undertake his own voyage of discovery. But he doesn’t realize the implications of the truth about the Ship – his world – until it’s too late to turn back...
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17080
- Title
- ORPHANS OF THE SKY
- Author
- Heinlein, Robert A
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a fine first printing dust jacket (with $3.50 price to front flap) with slight rubbing to corners and spine ends
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1964]
- Keywords
- SF
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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