Heinlein Fans here?

[herminator]

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Yes, very much a fan here. While I wouldn't let my kids read/listen to the books when they were younger due to some of the "adult" content in most of his books, I think he was a very good writer. He certainly had a way of drawing you into his stories and making you forget about everything else that is going on in the world. Just finished re-reading "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" for the 3rd or 4th time.

[Charlie Mc.]

Big Heinlein fan here. Though on that cover, Lazarus should be concealing the blaster under his kilt. I always enjoyed the fact that a lot of his characters wore kilts.

[Rob Wright]

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[Geoff Withnell]

Yes, very much a fan here. While I wouldn't let my kids read/listen to the books when they were younger due to some of the "adult" content in most of his books, I think he was a very good writer. He certainly had a way of drawing you into his stories and making you forget about everything else that is going on in the world. Just finished re-reading "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" for the 3rd or 4th time.

Are you aware of RAH's juvenile novels? Many written for Boy's Life magazine in the 50's. The science and cosmology are a bit dated, as is only to be expected, but they are cracking good stories, suitable for children and adults. Many credit these stories with the success of NASA, since just about every NASA astronaut and space scientist grow up on them.

Geoff Withnell
Heinlein fan and former rocket scientist

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Are you aware of RAH's juvenile novels? Many written for Boy's Life magazine in the 50's. The science and cosmology are a bit dated, as is only to be expected, but they are cracking good stories, suitable for children and adults. Many credit these stories with the success of NASA, since just about every NASA astronaut and space scientist grow up on them.

Geoff Withnell
Heinlein fan and former rocket scientist

Geoff I'd never heard of these stories. I'll have to do some searching and see if I can come up with some of them. If RAH inspired the early astronauts growing up in the 50's it sure crossed well into the 60's and early 70's to inspire a whole other generation to want to explore space too.

[Rob Wright]

Geoff I'd never heard of these stories. I'll have to do some searching and see if I can come up with some of them. If RAH inspired the early astronauts growing up in the 50's it sure crossed well into the 60's and early 70's to inspire a whole other generation to want to explore space too.

Juvenile Novel collections by Robert A. Heinlein:
"Four Frontiers"
---"Rocket Ship Galileo" (1947)
---"Space Cadet" (1948)
---"Red Planet" (1949)
---"Farmer in the Sky" (1950)
"To the Stars"
---"Between Planets" (1951)
---"The Rolling Stones" (1952)
---"Starman Jones" (1953)
---"The Star Beast" (1954)
"Infinite Possibilities"
---"Tunnel in the Sky" (1955)
---"Time for the Stars" (1956)
---"Citizen of the Galaxy" (1957)
"Outward Bound"
---"Have Spacesuit---Will Travel" (1958)
---"Starship Troopers" (1959)
---"Podkayne of Mars" (1963)


Rob

[billmcc]

I wish I could have met Robert Heinlein. He was a great author and a good man.

[fluter]

Emphatically yes. Thanks for the Astounding cover. I had forgotten that artwork!

TANSTAAFL!

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My wife and I are members of Audible an online site for books "on tape" which you are able to download to an IPod, etc. Have recently been getting a lot of Heinlein books, and am loving listening to them as I jog at the gym, or drive to a jobsite. The stories, even though many were written before spaceflight was in full swing are great studies in human nature. I even found a series of his short stories which was acted out like an old time radio show. Definately good listening!