Robert Heinlein, Farmer in the Sky

William Patterson (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1950

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Children's Literature
Novel
Science Fiction

Resources

Farmer in the Sky (1950) – Bill Lerner and his father emigrate to Ganymede, a large moon of the planet Jupiter, to start a new life. They want to be farmers, and the boy learns how to apply his scouting experience – both in what he learned and in the friends he made – to creating soil out of raw rock, while the father works as a civil engineer for the colony.

For more information on Heinlien's Juveniles (written between 1947 and 1958) see our entry on Robert Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo, The Literary Encyclopedia profile by William Patterson, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Citation: Patterson, William. "Farmer in the Sky". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 November 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16276, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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