The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the arcane Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was ever going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle's prized astrogation manuals—books on star navigation that Max literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation. When Max's mother decides to remarry a bullying oaf, Max takes to the road, only to discover that his Uncle Chet's manuals, and Max's near complete memorization of them, is a ticket to the stars. But serving on a spaceship is no easy task. Duty is everything, and a mistake can mean you and all aboard are lost forever. Max loves every minute of his new life, and he steadily grows in the trust of his superior officers, and seems to be on course for a command track position. But then disaster strikes, and it's going to take every trick Max ever learned from his tough life and his uncle's manuals to save himself and the ship from a doom beyond extinction itself.

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    A Heinlein juvenile that is still a great adult read

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    A good book. It's about a young man fighting for a dream in a universe set up against him.

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    I still read my old paperback, but I will let go of it for e-version. Republishing these Heinlein books allows me to make room for new material, and falling apart paperbacks. I have almost every Heinlein.

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    Like all too many Heinlein books, this does not improve with age.

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    Every one of Heinlein's "Juveniles" is a work most writers, SF or any genre, would love to have their name on the cover.

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    Although outstripped by real technology, this "Scribners Juvenile" is an outstanding novel in from Robert Heinlein. Readers will thoroughly enjoy traveling with Max as he goes from farm boy to Starman Jones. It is in my permanent collection.

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