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What do you recommend to a reader who is new to Heinlein? (lemmy.world)
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I like to recommend Methuselah’s Children because it’s where we meet Lazarus Long. The beginning of the Future History, although Lazarus did meet Pinero.

What do you recommend and why?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

One of his short stories from '41 "By his bootstraps" is a great time travel paradox.

And The moon is a Harsh Mistress solid story and a great into to orbital mechanics...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

In my opinion, his earlier stories were alot easier to read. To this day I still recommend Starship Troopers and Citizen of the Galaxy, not just to anyone new to Heinlein, but anyone looking for a good story to read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The very first Heinlein book I read was The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. It featured Lazarus Long, and I went on to read many of his books.

Starship Troopers is a quick read, well worth it.

Stranger in a Strange Land is an all time classic novel, a MUST read.

Time Enough for Love

Have Spacesuit will Travel

Anything really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I like his early 50s-60s work (some were written for youth):

The Star Beast

Tunnel in the Sky

Starship Troopers

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

And then there is the whole Lazarus Long saga, which contains some controversial sexual ideas (incest/pedo). IMO the first books in the saga are better.