Tunnel in the Sky

Heinlein's Juveniles, Book 9

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: André Santana

From the author of Starship Troopers comes Tunnel in the Sky, the story of a group of students who are dropped on a foreign planet in order to test their survival skills. When the rescue ship doesn’t arrive, they must create a new society and learn to adapt to their new life in the wild…but are their greatest troubles from beasts or fellow man?

©1955, 2003 Robert A. Heinlein. © 2003 by the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing

a great sci fy starter book

loved this book, read it first when I was 12 yrs old and I still love it. Made me a rabid Heinlein fan and a science fiction fan.

A great blast from the past

One of Heinlein's best and I couldn't have picked a better person to read it.

Loved this book

First read this book in 1969.
Still have the original hard copy from 1969. Loved this book

Great story

Heinlein got pretty loose in his later novels, but these early "juvenile" works are tightly plotted and highly entertaining. We're in the sure hands of a storyteller of uncommon inventiveness. Coming-of-age stories have an enduring charm, especially coming from the pen of a man who understood what it meant to grow up. Indeed, his teenaged protagonists are more grown-up than most adults, and all worth getting to know.

Heinlein was perhaps the earliest scifi writer to develop thoroughly circumstantial and believable future worlds. No one ever outdid him at imagining how technological changes would alter daily lives and choices.

A perfect coming of age tale worth listening to again every few years

A perfect coming of age tale worth listening to again every few years.
The plot is inventive and well paced. Given that it was published in 1955 the choice of an African American as the protagonist (see the Wikipedia article for the details and note the cover picture used for this performance) was groundbreaking in its day. If we ever see a video production I hope RAH’s choice is honored.