The action of the novels that make up this volume takes place during a difficult period in the history of Heinlein's future. Rebellions against Earth's dictatorship are breaking out across the solar system. The cradle of humanity is deprived of radioactive materials and biological resources of Venus, the products of lunar hydroponics and the ability to control the Mars project. But the moons of Jupiter continued to supply the Earth with food, and the intermediate base on Ceres became a new outpost of earthly civilization, from where the exploration and development of resources in the asteroid belt began. Soon these problems will lose relevance - the Third World War is coming on Earth, but for now... Bill Lermer, the young hero of the space frontier from the novel “The Sky Farmer,” goes with his family to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede to turn the small planet into a blooming garden. Ganymede turns out to be a tough nut to crack, however, its new owners also have strong teeth and the character of former frontiersmen of the Wild West. In the novel “Among the Planets,” the young poor fellow Don Harvey finds himself in a whirlpool of events on which the possible outcome of the war between Earth and the colonies of Venus depends. In “Cosmic” "The Stone Family" the reader, along with the twin brothers and their unpredictable family, travel on the ship "Rolling Stone" across the planetary expanses. This enterprise is unsafe, because the traveling company always gets into some kind of trouble. The translation of the novel “The Heavenly Farmer” has been done anew. Translations of other novels are published in a new edition.