Between Planets
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Don is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation – yet no single planet can claim him as its own. His mother was born on Venus and his father on Earth, and Don himself was born on a spaceship in trajectory between planets. And he fights for the rights of this curious citizenship in very curious ways. Heinlein reveals in a dashing fast-moving style what can happen when pol….Read More
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