A compelling coming-of-age adventure from legendary SF expert and multiple NY Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein

Lummox has been the pet from the Stuart family members for generations. With eight legs, a thick conceal, and increasingly large size, Lummox is certainly nobody’s idea of man’s closest friend. Even so, John Stuart XI, descendant from the starman who originally brought Lummox back to Earth, loves him. However when Lummox eats a neighbor’s car and starts to grow once again, the feds determine that enough will do. John isn’t going to let the government bodies take his pet away, and with his closest friend, Betty, he determines to save lots of Lummox-even if he must leave the life span he’s known forever.

“Among the grand experts of science fiction.”-Wall Road Journal, praise for the author