Series: Heinlein Juveniles
by Author Robert A. Heinlein
Red Planet (2006)
3.8 stars“Oh my gosh!”Although a conservative, staid, and constrictive tradition lies behind the 1950s, U.S. pop culture, an odd and innocent sense of fun seems to accompany it.“Gee!”After my immersion into Shirley Jackson’s dark and menacing world, Heinlein’s Red Planet, (1949), with this conser...
Time for the Stars (2006)
Slowly but surely, my obsession with young adult space stories will knock every Heinlein juvenile book off my to-read list. A month or two ago, I read Podkayne of Mars and while I did enjoy the audio format and the underlying world-building, the characters grated on me. I'd read and heard from se...
Farmer in the Sky (1975)
I got this book the first time out of a box of books a teacher brought in to class--which, given the school, would've been when I was fifteen.Frankly, my interest in the 'adventures' was minimal at best. I was drawn from the start by the science--the descriptions of what I didn't know at the tim...
Between Planets (2015)
My edition of this book is not one of the ones shown, but there's not much point in adding it. This is the 1981 edition of the Del Rey printing. It's neither a paperback nor a hardback--more of a hybrid bound paperback (maybe that's what people mean when they say 'library binding'. Actual libr...
The Rolling Stones (2005)
Here’s my latest re-read of Heinlein’s works. By 1952 we’re well into the so-called Heinlein juveniles – books published that were written by Heinlein predominantly for teenage Boy Scouts. After Between Planets, Heinlein was clearly on a roll, and in demand. The Introduction to this edition, writ...
The Star Beast (1977)
thots while reading:Holy cow, but the start of the second chapter is super-negative! Had forgotten that was the case. At the same time, it is almost hilariously funny how morbid it is. Heinlein introduces different scenarios that do not necessarily have anything to do with this story, and in ...
Have Space Suit—Will Travel (2005)
Is technological advancement social advancement?4 May 2014tI must say that when I read the first few pages of this book it had me in hysterics, particularly with the way Kip's father did his tax returns (by working it out in his head, then throwing a heap of money into an envelope and posting it ...
Space Cadet (2005)
review of Robert Heinlein's Space Cadet by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - January 7, 2015 Since I joined GoodReads in 2007 & decided to review every bk I read as a sort of intellectual exercise, I've had a rule to not let more of a backlog than 3 unreviewed bks accumulate. By the time I decided t...
Tunnel in the Sky (2005)
Here’s the latest reread of Heinlein’s works, as I go through the Virginia Edition series.And this one is the most personal (so far) for me. Tunnel in the Sky was the first ‘proper’ SF book to grab my attention when I was about 8-9. It was this book that determined that I would spend the next for...
Rocket Ship Galileo (2004)
The first thing that you need to know would be that this book was written for children. I knew that before reading, but I still had high expectations for it. I was not that impressed with this one, and I can thank the last 1/3 of the book for that.The novel started out really strong. Anything spa...
Starman Jones (2005)
Starman Jones was copyrighted in 1953 by Robert A. Heinlein and published that same year by Charles Scribner’s Sons of New York. The sixth of the Heinlein Juveniles, it is the last one to be fully illustrated by Clifford Geary.It is also the first of his juveniles to postulate interstellar travel...