David Gerrold
Jumping Off the Planet
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A trip to the Moon? Sounds like the perfect family vacation. Only, for 13-year-old Charles Chigger Dingillian, life is anything but perfect.His parents fight so much, they put the dis into dysfunctional. His brothers, Stinky and Weird, are impossible to get along with. And his neighborhood is a down-trodden tunnel community on Earth.It's supposed to be a short vacation-a trip up the Line, Earth's space elevator, and then home again. Halfway there, Chigger hits on a plan: if his parents can't find a way to work things out, why not just divorce them? The idea sounds crazy . . . until it works.But Chigger soon realizes he has much bigger problem…
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A trip to the Moon? Sounds like the perfect family vacation. Only, for 13-year-old Charles Chigger Dingillian, life is anything but perfect.His parents fight so much, they put the dis into dysfunctional. His brothers, Stinky and Weird, are impossible to get along with. And his neighborhood is a down-trodden tunnel community on Earth.It's supposed to be a short vacation-a trip up the Line, Earth's space elevator, and then home again. Halfway there, Chigger hits on a plan: if his parents can't find a way to work things out, why not just divorce them? The idea sounds crazy . . . until it works.But Chigger soon realizes he has much bigger problems: The people they meet on the Moon seem overly friendly and way too interested in his family. Suddenly, the quick pleasure trip takes a detour into danger as Chigger suspects they are targets of an interstellar manhunt. Their only hope may be to jump off the planet.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-948836-87-6
- EAN: 9781948836876
- Produktnummer: 31818253
- Verlag: BenBella Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 269 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
A Hugo and Nebula award winner, David Gerrold is the author of more than 50 books, several hundred articles and columns, and more than a dozen television episodes. His books include When HARLIE Was One, The Man Who Folded Himself, The War Against the Chtorr septology, The Star Wolf trilogy, The Dingilliad young adult trilogy, and the award-winning autobiographical tale of his son's adoption, The Martian Child. TV credits include episodes of Star Trek (The Trouble With Tribbles, The Cloud Minders), Star Trek Animated (More Tribbles, More Troubles, Bem), Babylon 5 (Believers), Twilight Zone (A Day In Beaumont, A Saucer Of Loneliness), Land of the Lost (Cha-Ka, The Sleestak God, Hurricane, Possession, Circle), Tales from the Darkside (Levitation, If the Shoes Fit), Logan's Run (Man Out of Time), and more.David Gerrold is a figment of his own imagination.
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