Class Trip: The protagonist casually mentions they've just been on a class trip to Antarctica, to help establish the wonderful world of the future.could hardly talk, which isn't like her." When he is injured and she visits him in the hospital, ". Chaste Hero: Bill doesn't understand why Gretchen would get upset when she comes over to help him with setting up the interior of his home and he suggests having Sergei's sister also help because there is a lot of work to do.Author Catchphrase: Characters say "So?", with context making it clear it's meant in the sense of "Is that so?".In best Heinlein tradition, it's something close to a long essay on how to colonize new worlds disguised as a novel, with a Slice of Life plot and characters with lots of pioneer spirit.The novel was awarded a Retro Hugo Award in 2001. William "Bill" Lermer and his family emigrate from Earth to Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons, which has been terraformed into an environment capable of supporting humans but still needs a lot of work to properly support them. If you are looking for new, secondhand or out-of-print books then AbeBooks UK may be able to help.Īlternatively, you can search and order through In The Sky is a juvenile science fiction novel by Robert A. Can the colonists survive and stay on Ganymede, or should they cut their losses and return again to Earth?
Life on Ganymede is hard, but it has its compensations – not the least of which is the beauty of Jupiter's many moons – and, through trial and error, the soil is made to provide fruitful crops. The process of planetary farming is fascinating: soil has to be newly created and even insects must be imported from Earth.
This is what happens to Bill, and he tells the story of the two months' flight to Ganymede through interstellar space, of hardships that the new colonists have to endure on arrival and how in the end he wins a plot of barren land of his own to cultivate. Food has become increasingly scarce on Earth in the 21st century, and you are going to try scientific farming on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter.
Imagine that you and your family are setting off, with many others, on the spaceship Mayflower. The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1969 printing of the Victor Gollancz hardback edition. Farmer in the Sky, a Heinlein juvenile novel.įirst published in condensed form as a serial in Boys' Life (August, September, October and November 1950 issues) under the title Satellite Scout.
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