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Tunnel in the Sky is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet, who soon realise they are stranded there.
Tunnel in the Sky is an underappreciated gem of a Heinlein juvenile. In the future, an overpopulated Earth expands into space through wormhole gates. Any job in the Outlands, as the other worlds are called, requires passing Outland Survival.
Jan 31, 2013 · But something has gone terribly wrong, and now Rod Walker and his fellow students are stranded somewhere unknown in the universe, beyond contact with Earth, at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. Stripped of all comforts, hoping for a passage home that may never appear, the castaways must band together or perish.
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Mar 10, 2015 · Stranded on a hostile planet, Rod and his friends are faced with the challenge of carving a civilization out of the wilderness. They must deal with hunger, deprivation, and strangely savage beasts. But the bigger question is, can they survive each other?
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Mar 15, 2005 · Tunnel in the Sky. Robert A. Heinlein. Simon and Schuster, Mar 15, 2005 - Fiction - 272 pages. A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around...
Oct 12, 1987 · Tunnel in the Sky (1955) is the ninth SF novel in the Juvenile series, following Star Beast. It is set in the middle future, at a time when rocket ships were superseded by teleportation gates. Interstellar planets were only a step away.
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Bibliographic information. A high school senior goes through the gate to an unknown planet for a two-to-ten day final exam in Advanced Survival, and realizes, after a period of fighting the...
Now they were stranded somewhere in the universe, beyond contact with Earth . . . at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. This small group of young men and women, divested of all civilized...
Tunnel in the Sky. Advanced Survival. College-level course that Rod Walker took at the end of high school. It required students to know how to live through any adverse conditions as preparation to explore and settle alien planets.
Tunnel in the Sky . Robert Heinlein . For . Jeannie and Bibs . 1 . THE MARCHING HORDES . The bulletin board outside lecture hall 1712-A of Patrick Henry High School showed a flashing red light. Rod Walker pushed his way into a knot of students and tried to see what the special notice had to say. He received an elbow in the stomach, accompanied ...
