Your favorite dated classic

[rachelmanija]

As someone said, the internet's oldest established permanent floating flame war has started up again ("Just like the Greeks thought that they'd successfully put Hector down and that no one would survive to avenge him, so the establishment thought it had successfully put Heinlein down and no one would survive to avenge him,") reminding me of how

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[jonquil]

God, I'd forgotten that. I remembered the comment about Earth being the only planet with prostitution, for how can a woman sell what she has in infinite supply? Even when young I remember thinking "So, they don't have cooks or writers elsewhere in the galaxy either?"

[tool_of_satan]

That part of it was dumb, but I thought the rest of what he had Star say there was interesting (or was it Rufo who made the comment you are referencing?).

[jonquil]

That was Rufo, having a man-to-man conversation with Oscar.

[wiredwizard]

=thinks hard= I don't remember any orgies in Citizen of the Galaxy...

[jinian]

I don't think I've ever read any of the Heinlein juveniles, though everyone says they're actually good. I'd be happy to hear about any of them.

[badnoodles]

I liked the way Heinlein handled the effects of massive sex ratio imbalance in Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and he kept the fun plot bits balanced with the political side better than in many of his later books.

Podkayne of Mars is my favorite of Heinlein's juveniles, though it's hard to read in some places through fifty years of social change.

I'd also suggest "I, Robot" as a good example of the future that turned out substantially different than expected.

[torrilin]

My 10 year old self hated Podkayne. It is a sufficiently huge hatred that 22 years later, I still can't forgive the book for existing enough to even try a reread.

So screamingly hateful.

[zeborahnz]

I read it for the first time this year and am still in a rage about a) the uncle blaming their mother and b) Podkayne slowly being brainwashed out of her aspirations.

[oracne]

Have Spacesuit, Will Travel or Citizen of the Galaxy.