Robert A. Heinlein 1961
- What it is
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Strangers who become a family · full of big ideas
- Genre
- Science fiction Classics
- Feels
- Wondrous Morally grey Funny Cerebral Defiant
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll want to talk it over with someone
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Full of big ideas · you'll keep turning it over for days
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Love and laughs in equal parts · love in the middle of danger
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Like yours: found family
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In common with yours: found family · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
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Odd and endearing · funny, and it bites
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Full of big ideas · nothing is quite what it seems
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Full of big ideas · meeting beings from another world
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Full of big ideas · tender and sad at once
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Full of big ideas · one to read slowly
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Full of big ideas · you'll keep turning it over for days
Sphere
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You'll keep turning it over for days · the truth comes out bit by bit
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Full of big ideas · you'll keep turning it over for days
Spin
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Full of big ideas · you'll keep turning it over for days
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A cozy mystery, no gore, but in fantasy
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Full of big ideas · nothing is quite what it seems
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It messes with your head · it's hiding a secret
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