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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Billion Dollar Boy (Jupiter) (1997)di Charles Sheffield
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The Billion Dollar Boy is a science fiction novel written for teens by author and physicist Charles Sheffield. Set a few hundred years in the future, Shelby Jerome Prescott Cheever is the son of the wealthiest man on the Earth. Spoiled and used to getting his way, he convinces his mother to take him on a space cruise of the mined out asteroid belt. Bored and in a drunken stupor, Shelby Cheever dons a space suit and heads for a nearby node, a type of man-made wormhole that allows people and ships to travel instantaneously to other regions of space. Too drunk to think straight, Shelby ends up in the Messina Dust Cloud 27 light years from Earth instead of the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system, where he was aiming on going. Picked up by a ship harvesting heavy elements of the dust cloud, and heading away from the nearest node, no one believes that Shelby is rich (since most of the people on Earth are poor). To earn his keep, Shelby must work alongside the crew of the harvester. When Shelby and the crew of the harvester meet up at Confluence to trade and socialize with other harvester crews during midseason, the only two people who believe Shelby about his wealth on Earth plot to kidnap him and hold him for ransom. The Billion Dollar Boy is an exciting read. Although spoiled and rich, the reader learns to like Shelby Cheever as he learns how to be a productive member of the harvester crew. The setting, in a colorful and dangerous dust cloud light-years from the Earth stimulates the imagination, and the supporting characters are quirky and believable. The science behind the technology described is solid, as the writer is a physicist, and I believe that this would be a good book for teens who are interested in space and technology, as there is an abundance of both. The book was solid, aimed at a teen crowd, but I found it a bit derivative of Heinlein's science fiction books aimed at teens. The plot was predictable, and the characters are cardboard. My two pet peeves with this book is 1) a kid in a spacesuit managed to get out of the ship, and then finds the portal that takes him 22 light years from earth. Does this ship have no security? Do they want tourists wandering around everywhere? and 2) Hey Dad, I only see you once a month, but when I come home as a man, you all of a sudden want to be in my life and manage to give all my friends what they need! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen Age selection Shelby Cheever V is a spoiled brat. He is also the richest kid in the country. Actually, make that the universe. Bored with his all-the-amusements-money-can-buy life, he decides on a bit of interstellar action, Shelby-style. But it turns out life on a starship is not all fun and games. As part of a crew, Shelby has a few things to learn. Like, how to follow orders instead of simply giving orders. Can Shelby learn how to cooperate with his crewmates? He may not have a choice. When Shelby becomes the target of a hostage-for-ransom scheme, he'll need all the help he can get. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Sheffield comments that this is his rewrite of a classic story by Rudyard Kipling. I haven't read that story, but from what I can tell, the least plausible parts of this story come from trying to adhere too closely to Kipling's outline. ( )