I need a break from the Great Books of Western Civilisation.
Gonna sprinkle in The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
Any Heinlein fans here? What other books of his would you recommend?
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Starship Troopers
Double Star
Stranger in a Strange Land
Beyond This Horizon
Farmer in the Sky
Those are his other Hugo and Retro-Hugo winners.
I’d also add Red Planet, as Stranger is essential a prequel written later for a more mature audience. RP gives insight into what’s going on with the Martians off-stage in Stranger.
WOW I did not know that these were all Heinleins 🤯
Sadly, I could not get into Moon Is A Harsh Mistress at all.
The Russian accent gimmick was cool in the first chapter but a whole book of this. I can't.
And worse, at least in the first three chapters or so, there is a little bit of interesting sci fi ideas and plot development - but it is padded with desperate attempt to build some romantic and sexual tension between the two main characters. Couldn't stand it and dropped the book.
SciFi books that try to add romance somehow always suck.