On a distant planet where humans are telepathically attacked by the natives, young Danny Fisher and his nighthorse Cloud lead a group of survivors to shelter in the snowbound mountains, where they discover a new menace.
If you've seen The Phantom Menace in a theater--and, judging from the 1999 box-office figures, who hasn't?--you've probably been a bit frustrated by the speed with which the fantastic images and creatures fly past. There's no such problem with this book. All the excitement of the Star Wars prequel is there, but this time there's breathing room, a chance to meet the characters, let them walk around in your imagination, hear their thoughts.
Heinlein, Robert A. - The Menace From Earth - Audiobook + Text
From a master of science fiction comes eight startling stories of time and space. In "The Year of the Jackpot", a statistician charts a curve of unusual happenings throughout the earth, only to find that his facts and figures prove the approach of the end of the world. In "By His Bootstraps," a man steps thirty thousand years into time and is trapped in the fourth dimension with three strange, yet oddly familiar, people.
