Farmer in the Sky
Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Farmer in the Sky (1950) is a Robert A. Heinlein novel for young readers. Bill Lermer, a teenage Boy Scout, emigrates with his father and new stepfamily from an overcrowded Earth to Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter. The colonists must build soil from crushed rock and survive a disaster that knocks out the heat trap keeping them alive. It won a retrospective Hugo Award.
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