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# Farmer in the Sky

"There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe." —Robert A. Heinlein, from Time Enough for Love.

### Be Prepared – Or Die!

Bill Lermer travels with his father, stepmother and stepsister to colonize a Jovian moon in the process of being terraformed. Out here, self-reliance is the key to survival—and Bill finds that his Boy Scout motto isn't merely a pretty saying. It's a necessary rule for survival!

This is it: what we think is the best of the classic Robert Heinlein adventure novels that influenced a generation of engineers and space scientists and still set the heart racing and the mind afire!

Cover Art by Bob Eggleton

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, April 2008

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### ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5540-7
ISBN-10: 1-4165-5540-4

Copyright © 2008 by the estate of Robert A. Heinlein. Originally published in Boy's Life magazine in serial form Aug-Nov 1950

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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### FOR SANDY

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