![]() ![]() ![]() Something about the cover and the size of the book and my previous positive experiences with Heinlein, and an ever-growing urge to immerse myself in science fiction, made me want to get right to this novel. I picked up a used copy, pictured above, on a birthday celebration/Christmas gift visit to Half Price Books last week for a whopping two dollars. According to Wiki, “both books were written for a publisher expecting to market a juvenile science fiction novel, and both raised serious objections from the publisher.” More on that later. The two books that seem to fit in between these two styles were Starship Troopers and Podkayne of Mars. His later works took on more decidedly adult themes and were definitely not for a younger audience. Although Heinlein wrote a number of short stories for various magazines on any variety of themes, his first published work in novel form, and several of his novels thereafter, were classified as “juveniles”, what would be defined as YA (Young Adult) today. ![]() ![]() Robert Heinlein was and remains one of America’s most celebrated science fiction authors. –originally published in novel form in 1963, my version 1970 ![]()
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