![]() I'd read and heard from several sources that Heinlein's treatment of his female characters can be a huge turnoff and he's two for two on that note for me thus far. ![]() A month or two ago, I read Podkayne of Mars and while I did enjoy the audio format and the underlying world-building, the characters grated on me. ![]() Slowly but surely, my obsession with young adult space stories will knock every Heinlein juvenile book off my to-read list. But there’s a catch: one of the twins has to stay behind-and that one will grow old-while the other explores the depths of space and returns as a young man still. Along with other telepathic duos, they are enlisted to be the human transmitters and receivers that will keep the ships in contact with Earth. When they are recruited by the Long Range Foundation, the twins find out that they can, indeed, peer into each other’s thoughts. As twins they’ve always been close, so close that it seemed like they could read each other’s minds. ![]() ![]() Tom and Pat are identical twin teenagers. There’s a problem though-because the spaceships are slower than light, any communication between the exploring ships and Earth would take years. Travel to other planets is now a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity of finding habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. ![]()
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