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• hguant · Dec 12, 2016 · Recommends

  Farnham's Freehold was the book that made me lose a lot of respect for Heinlein. I started reading him as a 13-14 year old - books like "Have Space Suit, Will Travel", "Farmer in the Sky", and "Starman Jones" - and ate them up. I got older and my dad recommended "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "Starship Troopers"; I really liked reading him alongside Asimov, who did such a great job of going into __how__…

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• emeraldd · Aug 11, 2015 · Recommends

  Not a movie but some books that I helped shape my view on life and learning: http://www.amazon.com/Have-Space-Suit-Heinleins-Juveniles-eb... http://www.amazon.com/Starman-Jones-Robert-A-Heinlein/dp/145... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_of_the_Galaxy That's the set I remember most at least. "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" has some good stuff on getting where you want to…

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• tkgally · Dec 21, 2019 · Mentions

  When I think back on the science fiction I read and enjoyed as a child and teenager a half century ago, the wrong predictions that amuse me most are two central plot elements in Robert Heinlein’s 1953 “Starman Jones” [0]. Faster-than-light travel through interstellar space is now routine, but the “astrogators” who guide the starships must refer to coordinates that appear in a set of printed manuals. When a starship…

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• Freak_NL · Sep 9, 2018 · Mentions

  …very refreshing to read SF from different decades — if only to occasionally get away from the dystopias of today's tomorrow. Sure, space rockets with paper printouts (Heinlein's juvenile bildungsroman Starman Jones) may seem silly today, but I find that it adds to the flavor of yesterday's tomorrows.

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• eesmith · Feb 18, 2019 · Mentions

  …at the end who switches her proxy votes to give Thorby the election win. She knows how to survive in a patriarchal society by being smart but hiding it as a society girl. (See also the passenger in "Starman Jones" who is part of her planet's upper class, and who hides her chess expertise from Jones.) So, I can agree that Heinlein is a feminist, but he sits somewhere between first-wave and second-wave feminists…

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• kabdib · Jun 6, 2017 · Mentions

  The first SF book I ever bought with my allowance money was Robert Heinlein's Starman Jones, one of his later "juveniles". I was ten years old. I read it for the spaceships, and the computers, and the other whiz-bang technology stuff. I never even noticed the characters. I went on to read a…

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• MaysonL · Jul 28, 2019 · Mentions

  I wonder if Nathaniel Bowditch was an inspiration for Heinlein's 1953 novel Starman Jones. It seems quite possible, given his Navy career.

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