Higher Education (A Jupiter novel) - Softcover

Sheffield, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812538900 ISBN 13: 9780812538908

Publisher: Tor Australia, 1997

Synopsis

Kicked out of school after a misfired practical joke, Rick Luban takes a job mining asteroids and is surprised by the industry's fierce competition and dangers, which include sabotage and murder. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Sheffield (1935-2002) was a mathematician and theoretical physicist by training. His doctoral work was on Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Dr. Sheffield worked as chief scientist for the Earth Satellite Corporation, a Washington, D.C.–based firm that specializes in the analysis of data gathered from space.

The author of thirty previous science fiction novels, including Cold as Ice and The Ganymede Club from Tor, Sheffield lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, author Nancy Kress.

Synopsis:

Kicked out of school after a misfired practical joke, Rick Luban takes a job mining asteroids and is surprised by the industry's fierce competion and dangers, which include sabotage and murder.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Australia
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0812538900
• ISBN 13: 9780812538908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288