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Jumping Off The Planet (Starsiders Trilogy) Hardcover – March 2, 2000

by David Gerrold (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars 26 customer reviews
Book 1 of 3 in the Dingilliad Series
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  • Series: Starsiders Trilogy (Book 1)
  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (March 2, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312890699
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312890698
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1.2 x 8.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,207,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsFrom The author of "The Trouble With Tribbles
By A Customer on March 1, 2000
Format: Hardcover
Thirteen-year-old Charles feels as if he and his brothers are possessions that his divorced parents battle over. His mother loathes his father because she believes her three progenies ruined her career as a singer. His father detests his mother for her infidelity. Now his mother wants to terminate her former spouse's visitation privileges. However, the court awards him custody of his children for one month each year. He takes Charles, Douglas, and Bobby to Mexico where they catch a train to Beanstalk City. There they ride an elevator that reaches beyond the atmosphere and serves as the jumping off point for the moon and other space colonies.

Initially, the Dingillian siblings think they are enjoying a family adventure, but the older two brothers (Charles and Douglas) soon believe their father plans to abduct the trio. Though a bit unsettled and frightened, they realize their father wants to make up for his past indiscretions and broken promises to them. However, they soon feel like pawns again when they learn their father is involved in a plot to change the world order. That latest betrayal shatters the sense of well being leading the boys down a course that will alter their lives forever.

Anyone who likes the works of Norton or Star Trek's "The Trouble with Tribbles" should immediately jump on JUMPING OFF THE PLANET. The tale is set in an alien, high tech environment, but deals with human problems caused by the divorce wars. David Gerrold has created a trio of memorable characters who deserve to continue as stars in an ongoing series. Anyone who enjoys a thought provoking science fiction tale will fully relish Mr. Gerrold's latest novel.

Harriet Klausner
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5.0 out of 5 starsFast-paced yet thoughtful science fiction. A+
By Edward Alexander Gerster VINE VOICE on May 28, 2000
Format: Hardcover
When this novel first slid across my desk, part of me was thrilled to have another David Gerrold novel to read, while part of me dreaded dealing with a story line wrapped around a dysfunctional family -- seen primarily from the perspective of an adolescent. I am now extremely happy to tell you that the story line reels you in, and moves along at a pace like a run away train. The characters are believable and wonderfully real in their strengths and weaknesses.

The "world building" that Gerrold did in creating this novel is reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke's "Fountains of Paradise" but in the Western hemisphere of a not-so-distant future. The balance of science to storyline is handled well, and the twists of story along the way are entertaining, if not exceptionally new. It is by no means a 'juvenile' novel, but instead should appeal to a much wider readership. Highly recommended.
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4.0 out of 5 starsBefore the Chtorr
By Joshua Koppel on February 19, 2004
Format: Mass Market Paperback
This book is hard to classify but if you have read Gerrold's War Against The Chtorr books you will be familiar with the style.
The story concerns three brothers spending a visitation with their father. He suggests a trip to the Moon and, against all previous behavior patterns, actually seems to follow through on the idea.
Getting to the Moon involves using a space elevator located in Ecuador at Sheffield Clarke. This is one of two currently in operation.
But nothing is quite so simple. Mom thinks Dad is trying to kidnap the children. Where did Dad get the money? What about all of the strange characters who are interested in the family? Needless to say, it gets quite complex.
The whole story is seen through the eyes of the middle son (Charles or Chigger). Because of this, events and characters often seem more incidental than they really are.
The story is also fleshed out with loads of discussions on planetary economics, physics, biology, etc. There are also complications from the overcrowded Earth. Plagues are starting to spread over vast sections of the planet and there have been reports of giant pink caterpillars that can eat horses (Chtorr?).
Kids may star in this book, but it is really aimed at the thinking reader. This is not a fluff piece or an action yarn. But it is very entertaining and a good first piece to the series.
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4.0 out of 5 starsunusual but kept my interest
By Mr. D. P. Jay on November 25, 2014
Format: Paperback
Science fiction isn’t normally my thing but this book came highly recommended from someone whose judgement I trust so I thought I would give it a go. Once I got into it, I quite enjoyed it, though it got silly towards the end and my reading pace slowed down.

There are some perennial issues – world economic problems, dysfunctional families and a tug of wars between estranged parents and the effect that this has on the children. Currency speculators shift money around regardless of the effect it will have on people, some of whom will die of hunger or during war.

The father takes the children to a colony on another planet and there is a toy monkey that is a bit like those dolls that teenage girls look after from school – the ones who need feeding and changing. The middle teen has a strange take on jazz, but then again it’s new to him. The middle son (and narrator) shares the teenage male obsession with pubic hair.

Mention of a ‘beanstalk’ meant I kept thinking of Jack and the beanstalk.

Mention of planet Betelguise seems to have been in homage to Douglas Adams.

There is the unlikely climbing (and even swimming) through space at one point towards the end.

Does the earth rotate anti-clockwise? I though it was the other way round.
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Published on June 25, 2011 by Arthur W Jordin
5.0 out of 5 starsScience Fiction with soul

Let me start of by saying this book touched me. I didn't expect it to, but there you go.

Others have given good summaries of the plot, so I won't bother. Read more

Published on October 9, 2007 by K. Morris
1.0 out of 5 starsJerry Springer in space.

Where to begin? We have the unlikeable characters. The dithering father. He's divorced from a shrewish mother who seems to exist only as a caricature in the background. Read more

Published on September 9, 2005 by John Barelli
3.0 out of 5 starsThere's no Jack in this Beanstalk

Back in the fifties Robert Heinlein pretty much perfected the science fiction 'juvenile' (which merely means that his protagonists were normally adolescents - not that the novels... Read more

Published on September 7, 2002 by Patrick Shepherd
1.0 out of 5 starsDisappointing pastiche of Heinlein

In this novel of a disfunctional family which evacuates a deteriorating Earth, Gerrold begins by writing as if it was a Heinlein juvenile--indeed, Charles, the hero, has been... Read more

Published on June 9, 2002 by Gary M. Greenbaum
4.0 out of 5 starsGreat reading

Great characters. So what if they constantly quarrel and seem to hate each other? What if Chigger, our viewpoint character, seems to cause much of the familie's discomfort? Read more

Published on December 10, 2001 by Amazon Customer
1.0 out of 5 starsA waste of space

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Published on September 27, 2001 by Ben Klausner
3.0 out of 5 starsWhile on vacation

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