'Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world'. Unforgettable Heinlein characters on an unforgettable adventure. Stone, an M.D., was needed to treat a dangerous outbreak of disease, even further out, to Titan and beyond. Their father thought that was a fine, idea, except that he and Grandma Hazel bought the spaceship and the whole Stone Family were on their way out into the far reaches of the Solar System, with stops on Mars(where the twins got a lesson in the interplanetary economics of bicycles and the adorable little critters called flatcats who, it turned out, bred like rabbits or perhaps, Tribbles.), out to the asteroids, where Mrs. It all statred when the twins, Castor and Pollux Stone, decided that life on the Lunar colony was too dull and decided to buy their own spaceship and go into business for themselves. The rollicking adventures of the Stone Family on a tour of the Solar System. By “One of the most influential writers in American literature.” -The New York Times Book Review.

It was published in hardcover that year by Scribner's as part of the Heinlein's Juveniles. Heinlein.Ī condensed version of the novel had been published earlier in Boys' Life (September, October, November, December 1952) under the title 'Tramp Space Ship'. The Rolling Stones (also published under the name Space Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Genres: YA, Space Adventure, Hard Science Fiction.

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