Robert A. Heinlein : A Reader’s Companion by James Gifford My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an excellent book, but not exactly a page turner. What it does is provide the metadata for nearly everything (Some things have … Continue reading
Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars You don’t know what to expect when one writer finishes a work started by another writer, particularly when that other writer is considered one of the greats in … Continue reading
The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars In 1980 Heinlein published a novel called The Number of the Beast. It involved parallel universes, The World as … Continue reading
Friday by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is perfectly enjoyable, but neither his best nor his worst. As he tended to do later in life, this novel ties back to earlier work of his. Kettle … Continue reading
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is probably the best known of all Heinlein’s novels as it reached an audience far beyond the science fiction fans who normally picked up … Continue reading
Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is one of Heinlein’s juveniles, but not one of the best ones. The protagonist is a teenage girl who along with her younger brother goes on … Continue reading
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is one the best of Heinlein’s novels, though not without some characteristic problems. In a future world there has been a devastating war, and afterwards the military-dominated … Continue reading
Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is one of Heinlein’s juveniles, and like a few others in that series it reflects a time when our notions of the other planets were still … Continue reading
The Menace from Earth by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars Robert A. Heinlein is one of the greats of Science Fiction, and this is one his stronger collections of short stories written in the 1940s and … Continue reading
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is unusual for Heinlein in that the protagonist is not one his super-competent engineer types, but instead a down-on-his-luck actor. He is shanghaied by a spaceman, and … Continue reading
