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Dewey Decimal Number: 509 EAN: 9780345353733 ISBN: 0345353730 Label: Del Rey Manufacturer: Del Rey Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: October 12, 1987 Publisher: Del Rey Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Release Date: October 12, 1987 Studio: Del Rey Editorial Review: Product Description: It was just a test . . . But something had gone wrong. Terribly wrong. What was to have been a standard ten-day survival test had suddenly become an indefinite life-or-death nightmare. Now they were stranded somewhere in the universe, beyond contact with Earth . . . at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. This small group of young men and women, divested of all civilized luxuries and laws, were being forced to forge a future of their own . . . a strange future in a strange land where sometimes not even the fittest could survive! ". . . fascinating . . . ingenious . . . this a book in the grand tradition of high literature!" -- The New York Times Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Heinlein at his best"Tunnel in the Sky" by Robert Heinlein is an excellent and very entertaining science fiction novel for "juveniles" and young adults. Patrick Shepard "hyperpat' gives a very good, competent, review. There is no need to repeat his work. So, what else can I say? Robert Heinlein fans tend to be folks who like to think. Heinlein may argue for this or that, but he was a very private person and his "public" writings do not always agree with each other, partly because he hid his actual views ... Read More Rating: - One of Heinlein's BestLong before Robert Heinlein turned his considerable talents to 500-page discussions of marriage and incest in the Howard Family, he had reached the peak of his powers with his so-called "juveniles." These were stories of regular, identifiable young people thrust into some of the most imaginative and exciting adventures in all of science fiction. Tunnel in the Sky is perhaps the best, and most memorable, of these works. You'll remember this book years after you read it, from the vivid portrayal of the ... Read More Rating: - I wish I had read it when I was 12Tunnel in the Sky is an easy, quick and entertaining read. Teenagers will learn a lot from this book and adults may learn a few things, too. Whenever I read the classics of science fiction I have to remind myself that even though a lot of the ideas expressed seem commonplace now, they were new and often controversial when the stories were first published. The notion that a woman would be part of an elite fighting force was unheard of in the 1950's, but in Tunnel in the Sky, the protagonist's ... Read More Rating:  - A very good read - but some problemsTunnel in the Sky is one of Heinlein's Juvenile books and stars a teenager about graduate high school but with one last exam. The exam is for him to be put stranded on an unknown planet with an unknown terrain and be prepared for basically anything. There is also the possibility of death during the exam and this is the first problem with the book. The idea of putting high school students, as part of their HS courses, in such grave danger where some of them are indeed killed and many are very seriously wounded ... Read More Rating: - Sci-fi version of Lord of the Flies, only happierI highly recommend this for teenagers -- and like all Heinlein, it has some good stuff in there for any thoughtful person. This is the sci-fi version of the darker Lord of the Flies (pulished one year earlier in 1954). |
