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Title: Go buy some of Heinlein's old young-adult novels instead.
Review: This is, perhaps, the worst book I've ever read by this author. The main character is a two-dimensional cardboard cutout, which gives him one more dimension than anyone else in the story.The book is filled with rusty, creaking old plot devices. The Evil Hedonistic Villian-Father gets a brief showing to set our hero off on his quest. The Man Driven By Hatred makes an appearance. There are Spaceship-Eating Aliens-- two kinds, yet! And, oh yes, let's not forget the hero, the Young Man of Uncertain Patrimony.Even the science is bad. The Cold of Space is used to quickly freeze a dead person at one point. Another guy is reduced to ash by three years' exposure to the surface of Venus-- but the tape recording he carries is perfectly intact.If the book were at least short, I could have given it two stars. As things stand, however, I just can't think of anything good to say.
