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Between Planets

Between Planets

Between Planets is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Blue Book magazine in 1951 as "Planets in Combat". It was published in hardcover that year by Scribner's as part of the Heinlein juveniles.


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“He considered horoscopes as silly as spectacles on a cow.”

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 4, “The Glory Road” (p. 43)

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“Don took it and said, “Uh, thanks! That’s awfully kind of you. I’ll pay it back, first chance.”
“Instead, pay it forward to some other brother who needs it.””

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 8, “Foxes Have Holes, and Birds of the Air Have Nests—” (p. 91)

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“He was still having trouble readjusting. Wars were something you studied, not something that actually happened.”

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 1, “New Mexico” (p. 9)

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“Don, have you been dealing with a booklegger?”

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 1, “New Mexico” (p. 10) - Mr. Reeves, asking the main character why he was in possession of a forbidden book discussing interplanetary politics.

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“He gave up and went back to loafing, found that he could sleep all right in the afternoons but that the practice kept him awake at night.”

Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 17, “To Reset the Clock” (p. 173)

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