Download or read book The Billion Dollar Boy written by Charles Sheffield and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spoiled Earth boy, in search of excitement, enters a node aboard a spaceship and is transported by accident to a mining ship, where he is cured of his bad ways. The story is told against the background of a world where machines have replaced many of the jobs performed by humans, including doctors.