![]() ![]() I put it on my list of books to look out for in London last week, found it, bought it, read it.Īnd it's a good sf novel. ![]() One was Double Star, which I caught up with last November the other was The Door Into Summer, of which I knew almost nothing it cropped up at 79th on Neil Sykes' list of the top 100 SF novels, now I notice down to 92nd. So I was a bit surprised to discover that there were still a couple of novels from his earlier, good period that I hadn't read. I have a lingering affection for Job: A Comedy of Justice but the last two I tried, To Sail Beyond the Sunset and The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, well, while I'm glad I borrowed them from someone else and didn't pay my own money for them, I can never get those wasted hours of my life back. But once I'd found and read the complete novel, it gradually began to occur to me that while Heinlein's past works were great, his present ones were pretty, well, dire. I remember at a vulnerable age (I must have been 12, looking up the dates) reading the first installment of The Number of the Beast in Omni, my young mind boggling at the idea of nipples going "spung!". As a teenager, I read almost all of his adult novels. Heinlein.Īs a child, I loved Heinlein's juvenile novels. Nwhyte8) The Door into Summer, by Robert A. ![]()
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