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Assignment in Eternity by Robert A. Heinlein
A collection of four novellas.
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A collection of four novellas.

Daniel Pinkwater: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death (Signet)
Walter and Winston set out to rescue the inventor of the Alligatron, a computer developed from an avocado which is …

Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in …

Understanding the Bible isn't for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It's meant to be read …

Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas. Kitty and Ben flee The City That Never Sleeps, thinking they …
This review is going to be a demonstration of reviewer bias, I guess. When I reviewed sheepfarmers daughter, I wasn't particularly impressed because it[return]was typical fantasy, and that's not really my thing. However, this book is typical space opera, and that is my thing. I personally enjoyed it. Until reading[return]the review just below mine, I even thought the plot was a new one. Yes, I know, I know: I'm probably the only SF fan in the entire history of the universe[return]not to have read anything by Lois Mcmaster Bujold. Look, I've only been around for 18 years or so, and for the first 8 of those I wasn't really reading[return]all that much. I can't have read everything.
This review is going to be a demonstration of reviewer bias, I guess. When I reviewed sheepfarmers daughter, I wasn't particularly impressed because it[return]was typical fantasy, and that's not really my thing. However, this book is typical space opera, and that is my thing. I personally enjoyed it. Until reading[return]the review just below mine, I even thought the plot was a new one. Yes, I know, I know: I'm probably the only SF fan in the entire history of the universe[return]not to have read anything by Lois Mcmaster Bujold. Look, I've only been around for 18 years or so, and for the first 8 of those I wasn't really reading[return]all that much. I can't have read everything.

Gary Paulsen: Brian's Winter (EBook, 2001, Random House Children's Books)
In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. Finally, as …