Cliffhanger Copout: Appears in-universe in a Story Within a Story, The Scourge of the Spaceways.

Captain Space, Defender of Earth!: Roger Stone and, later, Grandma Hazel help support the family by writing a deliberately over-the-top three-vee serial in the Captain Space Defender mold.

Nevertheless The Rolling Stone takes precautions anyway when they enter an unusually dense field that's a haven for miners. The book takes care to note that the asteroids are far enough apart that the risk of being hit by one is infinitesimally small.

Asteroid Miners: The titular family Stone travels to the Asteroid Belt, where the twins of the family hope to sell food and luxury items to the miners extracting radioactive ores.

And the Adventure Continues: After travelling to Mars, and eventually the Asteroid Belt, the family shrug and keep on Rolling.

Has nothing to do with other types of rolling stones. Hazel Stone returns in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. It takes place in the same universe as The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, which is a direct prequel. Like most Heinlein novels, it's very much hard science fiction: all of the math checks out. Together they finagle their father, beleaguered script writer Roger Stone, into purchasing a spaceship for a family outing through the solar system. Heinlein and published in 1952, The Rolling Stones follows the adventures of the Stone family, primarily through the viewpoint of fifteen-year-old red-headed troublemakers Castor and Pollux.

A well-loved YA novel written by Robert A.

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