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The intended market was teenaged boys, but the books have been enjoyed by a wide range of readers. Heinlein wanted to present challenging material to children, such as the firearms for teenagers in Red Planet. This led to "annual quarrels over what was suitable for juvenile reading" [2] with Scribner's editors.
The Stones, a family of "Loonies" (residents of the Moon), purchase and restore a used spaceship and go sightseeing around the Solar System.. The twin teenage boys, named Castor and Pollux after the half-brothers of classical legend, buy used bicycles to sell on Mars, their first stop, where they run afoul of local regulations, but their grandmother Hazel Stone saves them from jail.
Spaceships are often one of the key plot devices in science fiction. Numerous short stories and novels are built up around various ideas for spacecraft, and spacecraft have featured in many films and television series. Some hard science fiction books focus on the technical details of the craft.
Pages in category "Children's books set in outer space" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The boys also find evidence of an ancient lunar civilization, and postulate that the craters of the Moon were formed not by impacts from space, but by nuclear bombs that destroyed the alien race. When the base's Nazi leader shoots the pilot in order to silence him, Cargraves convenes a trial and finds him guilty of murder.
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The Book of the Long Sun, by Gene Wolfe "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", an episode of the original Star Trek with a similar premise "Mission of the Darians", an episode of Space: 1999 with a similar premise; The Starlost, a Canadian-produced science fiction television series devised by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast ...
Lego fans call the toy timeless -- but words on a pamphlet in a Lego set from the 1970s are decidedly modern. The note reads: "The urge to create is equally strong in all children. Boys and girls ...