{"id":1149,"date":"2020-01-30T11:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2020-01-30T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:24:31","slug":"heinleins-juveniles-silly-book-challenge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/30\/heinleins-juveniles-silly-book-challenge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Heinlein’s Juveniles \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0Silly Book Challenge, #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The second book in this very occasional series is … well, any of Heinlein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s juveniles. The cover is from the final book in the series, Have Space Suit, Will Travel<\/em> (1958). It features bug-eyed monsters, space pirates, and a plucky hero who saves the earth from alien invaders over Labor Day weekend and still makes it back in time to get a free-ride scholarship at M.I.T. and throw a milkshake at the antagonist. Plus, we are taught a handy mnemonic for the order of the nine planets (see below) and a parable about frogs that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the one about boiling them slowly. (Sorry for all the spoilers, but you’ve had 62 years.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For this posting of my #2 fiction book, I could have picked any one of the series. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all great (except, I guess, Rocket Ship Galileo<\/em>, the first). I mean, they were great when I first read them, starting in junior high school, when the science was only a little bit dated. (Venus had turned out not to have swamps, for example, and Mars never had canals. Jupiter’s EM environment would probably make Ganymede a poor place to farm.) Starting in 1953, after a few books set in our solar system, Heinlein got wise and set his stories somewhere more romantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But despite that, the juveniles are still great. Honestly, they’re better than most of Heinlein’s non-YA fiction. Practically all of it. Especially if you see Starship Troopers <\/em>as the YA fiction that it ought to have been<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are you waiting for? Get started! For a complete list, see the wikipedia article<\/a> (search “heinlein juvenile”). But you’ll need to get them new. We never put the old ones back into circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second book in this very occasional series is … well, any of Heinlein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s juveniles. The cover is from the final book in the series, Have Space Suit, Will Travel (1958). It features bug-eyed monsters, space pirates, and a plucky hero who saves the earth from alien invaders over Labor Day weekend and still makes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[1066,1054,1065,1070,1068,571,1064,1069],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-book","tag-heinlein","tag-juveniles","tag-mother-thing","tag-peewee","tag-pluto","tag-rah","tag-wormface"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-ix","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}