Red Planet

Pages: 208
Published: 1974
Language: English

When young Jim Marlow and his Martian friend Willis venture beyond their allowed limits on Mars, they stumble upon a dangerous conspiracy. This discovery thrusts Jim into a high-stakes adventure where the fate of the entire Martian colony hangs in the balance. He must race against time to expose the plot before it's too late.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Adventurous Tense Thought-Provoking

Quest

Science Fiction Space Opera Young Adult

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) was an American science fiction writer, born in Butler, Missouri. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1929 and served in the Navy until 1934, afterwards studying mathematics and physics briefly at UCLA. He sold his first story, "Life-Line", to Astounding Science Fiction in 1939 and became one of that magazine's leading contributors. In the late 1940s he was among the first science fiction authors to place work in general-interest magazines such...