The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
- 272
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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Our view
“Tunnel in the Sky” strands a class of students on an uninhabited planet, and Heinlein makes a lively adventure of it. What starts as a survival test becomes a stay with no way home, and the young castaways have to fend for themselves. Some readers find it an easy, exciting read. Written in 1955 for young readers, it is just as open to adults who enjoy survival stories.
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About the book
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 1990 history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s to 1990. The Prize became a bestseller, helped by its release date in December 1990, four months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and one month before the U.S.-led coalition began the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country. The book eventually went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.
Reading order · Heinlein juveniles
Full order & progress →- Rocket Ship GalileoStart here
–Not ranked yet - Space Cadet
7.67.6 / 10 - Red Planet
7.67.6 / 10 - Farmer in the Sky
7.67.6 / 10 - The Rolling Stones
–Not ranked yet - Starman Jones
7.77.7 / 10 - The Star Beast
–Not ranked yet - Tunnel in the Sky
–Not ranked yet - Time for the Stars
7.67.6 / 10 - Citizen of the Galaxy
7.67.6 / 10 - Have Space Suit—Will Travel
7.57.5 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 77 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% 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 | 8.4 | 11 | 14% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 66 | 86% |
Frequently asked
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It has 272 pages — shorter than 83% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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