Double Star
- 172
- Pages
- about 3 h
- Reading time
- Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Our view
Robert A. Heinlein’s “Double Star” is a short, well-paced novel that works above all as a portrait of the actor at its centre. The plot is straightforward; the interest lies in how he grows into a political part, in a future where the rights of Martians are a live question. Some readers find its attitudes to women plainly sexist, a mark of the 1950s. Recommended to anyone who likes science fiction concerned with politics.
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About the book
Double Star is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction and published in hardcover the same year. It received the 1956 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 117 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 44% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out. A further +0.10 comes from the small bonus for major awards.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 18 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 99 | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is Double Star?
It has 172 pages — shorter than 96% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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