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Time Travel

The Menace from Earth

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  • 1959 first published
  • 225 pages
  • ★ 3.5 (4 ratings)
  • 28 editions
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The Menace from Earth is a 1959 time-travel fiction story collection by Robert A. Heinlein. It deals with statistics, time travel, space colonies and interplanetary voyages.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, and 29 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 28 editions.

At about 225 pages, most readers finish it in 4–5 hours.

About The Menace from Earth

Earth seems a sinister planet hanging in the sky. But to the Pluto colony, Earth Satellite Base holds the only possible reprieve from a terrifying death sentence. And on Earth itself, alien intelligence prowls the skies, kidnapping people for its own inhuman amusement - book cover.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • American Science fiction
  • English Short stories
  • Science fiction
  • Statistics
  • Time travel
  • Space colonies
  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Alien abduction
  • Psychokinesis
  • Clairvoyance

Quick answers

Who wrote The Menace from Earth?

The Menace from Earth was written by Robert A. Heinlein and first published in 1959.

What genre is The Menace from Earth?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel.

How long is The Menace from Earth?

The median edition has 225 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Menace from Earth?

Readers who like it often enjoy Dragonflight, The Defiant Agents and Pathfinder.

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