5/10/2023 0 Comments Red planet by robert a heinleinWhen Jim and Frank sneak into Howe's office and rescue Willis, the bouncer repeats two overheard conversations between Howe and Beecher, the unscrupulous colonial administrator of Mars, detailing Beecher's plans for Willis and the colony. Howe, who confiscates Willis, claiming that it is against the new rules to have pets. They also share water, making Jim and Frank "water friends" with the Martian, who is named Gekko.Īt school, Jim gets into trouble with the authoritarian headmaster, Mr. The three-legged alien takes the two boys and Willis to join a ritual called "growing together" with a group of its fellows. At a rest stop, Willis wanders off and encounters one of the adult sentient Martians. Jim takes along his native Martian pet, Willis the Bouncer, a round fur covered ball the size of a vollyball, who is about as intelligent as a human child and has a photographic memory for sounds, which he can also reproduce perfectly. On Mars, colonial teenagers Jim Marlowe and Frank Sutton travel to the Lowell Academy boarding school for the start of the academic year. The novel is set in the future when Mars has been colonized by humans, but is administered by a governor appointed by the Earth government and the colonists have no political power.
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