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Farmer in the Sky is a 1950 novel by Robert A. Heinlein.

Synopsis

A widower and his teenage son Bill and stepdaughter, Peggy leave an overcrowded Earth to settle on Ganymede which is in the process of being terraformed. When they arrive they discover the colony is not prepared for them and the farms they were promised do not yet exist. The family and other colonists face deadly challenges.

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