Podkayne of Mars
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Emily Janice Card
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Podkayne Fries, a smart and determined maid of Mars, has just one goal in life: to become the first female starship pilot and rise through the ranks to command deep-space explorations. So when she is offered a chance to join her diplomatic uncle on an interstellar journey to distant Earth via Venus, it's a dream come true - even if her only experience with diplomacy is handling her brilliant but pesky younger brother, Clark.
But she's about to learn some things about war and peace, because Uncle Tom, the ambassador plenipotentiary from Mars to the Three Planets Conference, is traveling not quite incognito enough - and certain parties will stop at nothing to sabotage negotiations between the three worlds.
©2003 The Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.What listeners say about Podkayne of Mars
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- Paul
- 04-07-2014
Classic Heinlein Novel
One of Heinlein's better stories, most of it richly details life on a space ship & off earth colonies. The science is more than a bit dated nowadays but the impact of technology on people is brilliant.
My biggest gripe is that they went with the edited ending rather than the original Heinlein ending which makes the book lose a lot of the dramatic impact.
The narrator is well suited for the tone, an older voice than Podkayne - but I've always imagined Podkayne as at least a few years older than the book describes. The format of the book particular suits a narration style rendering.
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