Time for the Stars
by Robert A. Heinlein
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/FINE
- ISBN 10
- 0765314932
- ISBN 13
- 9780765314932
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About This Item
New York: Tor, 2006. 1st thus. Hardcover. Fine/FINE. Chris Moore. First printing of this edition. Like new. Dust jacket is now in a new removable protective cover. Black boards with copper print on the spine. Pages are clean and umarked. Tor hard cover with dust jacket, first printing of this edition August 2006 (stated, complete number line. ISBN: 9780765314932, 244 pages, cover art by Chris Moore. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.5"") Telepathic identical twins assist in the exploration of space, in this young adult novel first published in 1956.
Synopsis
Time for the Stars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published by Scribner's in 1956 as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The basic plot line is derived from a 1911 thought experiment in special relativity, commonly called the twin paradox, proposed by French physicist Paul Langevin.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030120019780765314932cvr
- Title
- Time for the Stars
- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Illustrator
- Chris Moore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- FINE
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- ISBN 10
- 0765314932
- ISBN 13
- 9780765314932
- Publisher
- Tor
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- young adult
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy;
- Size
- 8vo
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