Tunnel in the Sky

Del Rey Books

Written by Robert A. Heinlein

Copyright 1955

In Robert Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky, high school student Rod Walker has a final examination in Advance Survival - and is sent to an uncivilized planet. Along with several other classmates, Rod and the others are stranded on the rigorous planet - when something goes wrong with their retrieval. Now these young people must pull together and adapt to the situation on this planet in order to survive.

This book reminds me of Lord of the Flies, as all the students pull together to form an industrious colony. With the planet now their home, several of the students make a play for leadership against Rod as he struggles to organize a safe community. This makes the play for leadership a little ugly.

Pancho
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