![]() Pat, the dominant twin, manipulates things so that he gets selected as the crew member, much to Tom's annoyance. Testing shows that teenagers Tom and Pat Bartlett have this talent and both sign up. Before announcing the discovery, the foundation first recruits as many of these people as it can. The process seems to be instantaneous and unaffected by distance, making it the only practical means of communication for ships traveling many light years away from Earth. It is found that some twins and triplets can communicate with each other telepathically. Each starship has a much larger crew than necessary to maintain a more stable, long-term shipboard society, as well as provide replacements for the inevitable deaths. The vessels can continually accelerate but cannot exceed the speed of light, so the voyages last many years. It has built a dozen exploratory starships ( torchships) to search for habitable planets to colonize. The Long Range Foundation (LRF) is a non-profit organization that funds expensive, long-term projects for the benefit of mankind. The basic plot line is derived from a 1911 thought experiment in special relativity, commonly called the twin paradox, proposed by French physicist Paul Langevin. ![]() Heinlein published by Scribner's in 1956 as one of the Heinlein juveniles. ![]() Time for the Stars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. ![]()
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