Tom Bartlett has always done just about everything with his bossy identical twin brother Pat. Now suddenly Tom finds himself on an exciting interstellar journey, whose goal is to find planets hospitable to human life. Tom will relay the Captain's and scientific teams' reports telepathically to Pat, who remains on Earth as will other telepathic twins who will also relay information to their identical siblings back home. Such mind-to-mind communication, it is discovered, is not bound by the speed of light.

One catch to this set-up has to do with Einstein's relativity laws: Ship-time on this faster-than-light journey will not be the same as Earth-time, and Tom's stay-at-home twin will become an old man while Tom is still young. Tom's many trials and adventures in space as well as his communications with successive generations of the Bartlett family, display Heinlein's signature storytelling skills, with humor, wisdom and flair. Chicago Sunday Tribune wrote, "Rarely has Heinlein pushed his imagination further" and The New York Times wrote that TIME FOR THE STARS is "a joy to read. Here again is Heinlein at his best."

"One of those superb Heinlein stories which have excitement, urbanity, humanity, rationality, pace, understanding: and which are a joy to read. Here again is Heinlein at his best."
- The New York Times

"Rarely has Heinlein pushed his imagination further … (Readers) will find TIME FOR THE STARS a vivid, stirring experience."
- Chicago Sunday Tribune

"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world … [Heinlein] remains today as a sort of trademark for all that is finest in American imaginative fiction."
- Stephen King

"There is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein."
- Dean Koontz

"One of the most influential writers in American Literature."
- The New York Times Book Review

"Heinlein wears imagination as though it were his private suit of clothes."
- The New York Times

"Heinlein… has the ability to see technologies just around the bend. That, combined with his outstanding skill as a writer and engineer-inventor, produces books that are often years ahead of their time."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"One of the grand masters of science fiction."
- The Wall Street Journal

about the author:
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988), often called the Science Fiction Grand Master, was the author of such ground-breaking novels as STARSHIP TROOPERS, RED PLANET, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND and THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS. He is generally considered the greatest and most influential science fiction writer of the twentieth century. In addition to being a bestselling author, Heinlein's novels won 4 Hugo awards, 3 "retro Hugo" awards, and the first "Grand Master Award" from the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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### Review

''One of the superb Heinlein stories that has excitement, urbanity, humanity, rationality, pace, understanding, and is a joy to read.'' -- *New York Times*

''Rarely has Heinlein pushed his imagination further. . . A vivid, stirring experience.'' --*Chicago Tribune*

''He showed us where the future is.'' --Tom Clancy

''The word that comes to mind for him is essential. As a writer--eloquent, impassioned, technically innovative--he reshaped science fiction in a way that defined it for every writer who followed him. . . He was the most significant science fiction writer since H. G. Wells.'' -- Robert Silverberg

''Robert A. Heinlein may have been the all-time most important writer of genre sf.'' --*Science Fiction Encyclopedia*

### About the Author

ROBERT ANSON HEINLEIN (1907-1988) served five years in the U.S. Navy and then attended graduate classes in mathematics and physics at UCLA. After a variety of jobs, he began to write science fiction in 1939. His novels have won the Hugo Award, and in 1975 he received the first Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.