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Author: Charles Sheffield
Year: 1997
Type: NOVEL
Storylen: juvenile
Series: Jupiter
Series Number: 2
Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Boy
ISFDB Record Number: 5750
Synopsis: Second in the Jupiter series of young adult novels. Shelby Cheever is the spoiled son of J. P. Cheever, one of the wealthiest men on the planet. In a compulsive act of boredom, Shelby takes a space cruise on the luxury liner Bellatrix. Too drunk and impatient to wait for a guided tour of a transportation node, he suits up and launches himself through the node unaided - and finds himself in trouble 27 lightyears away from Earth.
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Publications:
- The Billion Dollar Boy, (Apr 1997, Charles Sheffield, publ. Tor, 0-312-86204-0, $22.95, 255pp, hc) Cover: Vincent Di Fate - [VERIFIED]
- The Billion Dollar Boy, (Jul 1998, Charles Sheffield, publ. Tor, 0-812-53891-9, $5.99, 255pp, pb) Cover: Vincent Di Fate - [VERIFIED]
- The Billion Dollar Boy, (May 2003, Charles Sheffield, publ. Starscape, 0-765-34566-8, $5.99, 255pp, tp) Cover: Julie Bell
Reviews:
- Review by Russell Letson (1997) in Locus, #432 January 1997
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (1997) in Locus, #433 February 1997
- Review by D. Douglas Fratz (1997) in Science Fiction Age, May 1997
- Review by Don D'Ammassa (1997) in Science Fiction Chronicle, October 1997