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Tunnel in the Sky
- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrator
- André Santana
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 8 November 2025
- Run Time
- 7 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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?
Critics Review
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“One of my favorite books of all time.”
Andy Weir
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“Fascinating…Ingenious…A book in the grand tradition of high literature!”
New York Times
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“Not only America’s premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world.”
Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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“There is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein.”
Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author
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“One of the most influential writers in American Literature.”
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“Heinlein wears imagination as though it were his private suit of clothes.”
The New York Times
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“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
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“One of the grand masters of science fiction.”
The Wall Street Journal
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Details
- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrator
- André Santana
- Duration
- 7 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9798228580527
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Science fiction: space exploration, Science fiction
Synopsis
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?
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