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Subject: Re: Andre Norton and Heinlein juveniles
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:53:06 -0700
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>Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
  <snip>
> On 9/9/2024 10:15 AM, Ahasuerus wrote:
>> One thing that we determined back in the 1990s was that Usenet
>> posters generally agreed that most Heinlein juveniles were "good",
>> but everyone had a somewhat different rated list. For what it's
>> worth, here is mine:
>> Tier 1
>> * Citizen of the Galaxy
>> * Have Space Suit -- Will Travel
>> Tier 2
>> * Tunnel in the Sky
>> * The Star Beast
>> * Time for the Stars
>> * Red Planet
>> Tier 3
>> * Starman Jones
>> * Farmer in the Sky
>> * The Rolling Stones
>> Tier 4
>> * Between Planets
>> * Space Cadet
>> * Podkayne of Mars
>> Tier 5
>> * Rocket Ship Galileo
>> (_Starship Troopers_ was originally written as a juvenile and
>> rejected by Scribner as "too adult". And then Doubleday and Campbell
>> rejected it as "too juvenile".)
>
> Move "The Star Beast" to Tier 1 and we are good.
>
> "The Star Beast" is quite unique among Heinlein's books in that it has
> many space faring races of different unique configurations.  Very
> unusual for him.  And Earth was not supreme among the various space
> faring races.
>
> Lynn

"Have Space Suit -- Will Travel" also had a multitude of space faring
races, sitting in judgement on Earth after disposing of the bad guys by
"rotating" their planet.
  -Don-