Between Planets is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Blue Book magazine (September, October 1951). It was published in hardcover that year by Scribner's as part of the Heinlein juveniles.
A young man named Don Harvey leaves his dude ranch high school on Earth to return to his home on Mars at the request of his scientist parents. He visits an old family friend who asks him to deliver a ring to his father,...
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Between Planets is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Blue Book magazine (September, October 1951). It was published in hardcover that year by Scribner's as part of the Heinlein juveniles.
A young man named Don Harvey leaves his dude ranch high school on Earth to return to his home on Mars at the request of his scientist parents. He visits an old family friend who asks him to deliver a ring to his father, but they are both later arrested by security forces. Harvey is released and given his ring back, after it has been examined; he is told that his friend has died of "heart failure." It is only later that he realizes that all deaths can be described that way.
Harvey boards a shuttle to a space station orbiting the Earth. The station doubles as a transshipment terminus and a military base, armed with missiles to keep restive nations in check. On the trip up, he befriends one of his fellow passengers, a Venusian "dragon" named Sir Isaac Newton....
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