美國「科幻先生」海萊因星際旅行大作，生動有趣、充滿青春活力的太空流浪紀實，滾動的頭腦不生苔－跟石家一族，歡喜遊太空！。
石家全家七口人原先住在月球城市，由於覺得生活太無聊，便弄來一艘二手太空船，想進行一次太空旅遊。這個家族的成員，上至不知有多老的老祖母，下至一對少年雙胞胎兄弟，個個都是天才。原本石爸爸是想藉旅行好好教導孩子們生活的紀律，但雙胞胎兄弟卻想趁機做點「進出口」貿易，再加上無所不知的老奶奶適時攪和，還有星際旅行中的各種突發狀況，讓故事變得更加引人入勝。
石家人每個人有自己的性格，也各有各的獨特才華。作者使用間接的手法，透過對白與行動，讓各個人物展示他們各自的特點與特色。個人與社會的矛盾是本書的嚴肅主題，作者卻用一種輕鬆的方式處理，將這種脫離社會、追求個人自由的行動，寫成一段段生動有趣的太空流浪紀實。其中雙胞胎兄弟的冒險精神與想像力的充分運用，更使本書增添不少青春活力。本書是難得一見的幽默科幻佳作，也非常適合青少年閱讀。
Unforgettable Heinlein characters on an unforgettable adventure.The rollicking adventures of the Stone family on a tour of the Solar System. It all started when the twins, Castor and Pollux Stone, decided that life on the Lunar colony was too dull and decided to buy their own spaceship and go into business for themselves. Their father thought that was a fine idea, except that he and Grandma Hazel bought the spaceship and the whole Stone family were on their way out into the far reaches of the Solar System, with stops on Mars (where the twins got a lesson in the interplanetary economics of bicycles and the adorable little critters called flatcats who, it turned out, bred like rabbits; or, perhaps, Tribbles . . .), out to the asteroids, where Mrs. Stone, an M.D., was needed to treat a dangerous outbreak of disease, and even further out, to Titan and beyond.
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