The Free Lunch
On the run from a terrible past, twelve-year-old Mike seeks refuge in America's most beloved theme park, Dreamworld.� On yet another attempt to "disappear" into Dreamworld, Mike is helped by Annie, a woman has successfully hidden in Dreamworld for years.�

Mike faces many challenges: he must help stop hired killers who seek to destroy his new home, and also help uncover the nature and purpose of some very strange creatures who are infiltrating Dreamworld.

Praised by The New York Times as "an homage to the lighter side of Robert A. Heinlein", this is a clever and compassionate novel for Robinson and Heinlein lovers alike.
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The Free Lunch
On the run from a terrible past, twelve-year-old Mike seeks refuge in America's most beloved theme park, Dreamworld.� On yet another attempt to "disappear" into Dreamworld, Mike is helped by Annie, a woman has successfully hidden in Dreamworld for years.�

Mike faces many challenges: he must help stop hired killers who seek to destroy his new home, and also help uncover the nature and purpose of some very strange creatures who are infiltrating Dreamworld.

Praised by The New York Times as "an homage to the lighter side of Robert A. Heinlein", this is a clever and compassionate novel for Robinson and Heinlein lovers alike.
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The Free Lunch

The Free Lunch

by Spider Robinson
The Free Lunch

The Free Lunch

by Spider Robinson

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Overview

On the run from a terrible past, twelve-year-old Mike seeks refuge in America's most beloved theme park, Dreamworld.� On yet another attempt to "disappear" into Dreamworld, Mike is helped by Annie, a woman has successfully hidden in Dreamworld for years.�

Mike faces many challenges: he must help stop hired killers who seek to destroy his new home, and also help uncover the nature and purpose of some very strange creatures who are infiltrating Dreamworld.

Praised by The New York Times as "an homage to the lighter side of Robert A. Heinlein", this is a clever and compassionate novel for Robinson and Heinlein lovers alike.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940012631022
Publisher: Spectrum Literary Agency, Inc.
Publication date: 02/04/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 850,322
File size: 561 KB

About the Author

About The Author
Spider Robinson has published over thirty-five books since 1973, won three Hugos, a Nebula, the John W. Campbell Award, and numerous other international honours. In 2006 he became the first Writer In Residence at Vancouver�s H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, and in 2010 he was named sixth Writer In Residence at the Vancouver Public Library. He has written songs with David Crosby and Todd Butler, and recorded original music with Amos Garrett and Michael Creber. His award-winning podcast Spider On The Web has appeared regularly since 2007, and he has been Toastmaster at two World Science Fiction Conventions. He was married for 35 glorious years to Jeanne Robinson, a dancer, writer and Buddhist priest with whom he co-authored the Hugo- and Nebula-winning THE STARDANCE TRILOGY. For further information visit www.spiderrobinson.com.

�The Free Lunch is a fast-moving homage to the lighter side of Robert A. Heinlein�
- The New York Times

[Spider Robinson] "embodies the best of Sturgeon, Heinlein, and Asimov."
- David Gerrold
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