my e-friend @dsawyer is writing a book on Heinlein's juveniles, and he's asked if I'm willing to read a pre-release copy.
WILLING!?!?
OMG, I can't wait.
I'm an avid reader of books about SF authors, especially Heinlein, and this PARTICULAR book NEEDS to exist.
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Will there be a section on how some of his juveniles led directly for people going into certain academic and industry fields?
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Replying to @seanroconnor @MorlockP
It receives a passing mention, but not a full section. The book is focused more on the books themselves and why they continue to read well after sixty years. There are a LOT of subtle things going on in them, lots of secrets to unearth and understand :-)
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Have Spacesuit Will Travel convinced me as a kid that I might want to take as much advanced classes that my high school would offer Space Cadet drove me to get an aerospace eng degree with adv training in nuclear power as a path towards working someday in space…
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Replying to @seanroconnor @MorlockP
Nice! Another one: Farmer in the Sky got Greg Baer interested in astrophysics--he's now a Ph.D., engineer, and professor as well as an SF author (also married Astrid Anderson, daughter of Poul &allegedly the inspiration for Pee-Wee in Space Suit).
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Replying to @dsawyer @seanroconnor
Farmer in the Sky got me interested in ... wait for it... farming. :)
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Replying to @MorlockP @seanroconnor
Really?!?!?!? =-O Due to the vicissitudes of fate, I only actually read three of the juveniles while I was a teenager--but I did read most of the adult novels. Found out there were more juveniles when I ran across them in the college library, and got interested in the form.
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Replying to @dsawyer @seanroconnor
I read them all in elementary school. First SF novel I ever read was The Red Planet. Accidental - I knew I liked science, thought it was "about" Mars. Fell in love, read everything else by Heinlein on the shelf. Around 2nd grade.
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Replying to @MorlockP @seanroconnor
I was handed Tunnel the day Heinlein died--I'd never heard of him and my father was terribly upset. He gave me that book, then pointed to the Heinlein shelf and said "when you're done with that, come back for more."...1/2
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This is the one man who deserves the #1 Dad coffee mug; all others are imposters.
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Replying to @MorlockP @seanroconnor
Indeed! He had many (tragic) failings, but introducing me to Heinlein, Tolkien, Burke, Bonhoeffer, and Orwell, then teaching me the classical mental disciplines (the basis of another book that's currently being edited, now that I think of it) more than made up for any problems.
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