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Robert A. Heinlein Book Club: Episode 43: Space Jockey

American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

English - September 06, 2023 13:39 - 18 minutes - 19.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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"Space Jockey" is another great science fiction story by Heinlein from 1947 published in the Saturday Evening Post. At the same time it is horribly quaint and seems a bit more like fantasy than science fiction. Someone moving from the gig economy to full time family-supporting employment? Not in this universe.