Galileo Club is a group of average students who are worried about their future. They are not like other students who are always busy adopting new things, fashions, and trends. Playing on the ground or driving fast vehicles is not the dream of these kids rather they spend time developing things like rocket fuel.
All they want is to go to a first rank technical college so that they can materialize their dreams. Robert A. Heinlein has described this group of students as ambitious people who want to achieve their goals through hard work only. Art’s uncle becomes the first person in the novel who gives this group an opportunity to physically test their ability instead of experimenting in a lab.
The nuclear physicist i.e Art’s uncle, asks the Galileo Club to build a real rocket that can actually go to the moon. This is like a really big opportunity for the group of students because through this way they would be able to prove their ability to the world. They develop the blueprints first of all and later they start working on the real thing. None of the teammates was aware that their rivals wanted to stop them as they don’t want to see the rocket in working condition.
Spider Robinson is really a superior narrator who has quite successfully portrayed this group of ordinary boys as heroes. Starship Troopers and Time for the Stars will take your imaginations and dreams sky high. Such books provide young minds an opportunity to think in a positive way and tell them that they too can achieve anything if they are committed to it.
