Farmer in the Sky
By: Robert A. Heinlein
Contributors: Woosley, Jim
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Riverdale, NY; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781439132777
Copyright date: 1977
Description: A youth and his father emigrate from the mechanical and organized world on overpopulated Earth to become colonists on Ganymede, the third moon of Jupiter.
Notes: Published, in condensed form, in Boy's life magazine under title: Satellite scout.

Includes an "Afterword"; Terraforming Ganymede: science and technology in Robert A. Heinlein's Farmer in the sky, by Dr. Jim Woosley, c2008.

Includes excerpt from The puppet masters.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / William H. Patterson; title: Farmer in the sky  / Robert A. Heinlein: Earth; title: The green-eyed monster; title: Space ship Bifrost; title: Captain DeLongPre; title: Captain Harkness; title: E=MCp2s; title: Scouting in space; title: Trouble; title: The moons of Jupiter; title: The promised land; title: "Share croppers"; title: Bees and zeroes; title: Johnny Appleseed; title: Land of my own; title: Why did we come?; title: Line up; title: Disaster; title: Pioneer party; title: The other people; title: Home; title: Afterword: Terraforming Ganymede: science and technology in Robert A. Heinlein's Farmer in the sky / Jim Woosley.