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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
I recall that I did not care for a lot of his other books I read: Starman Jones, Starship Troopers, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, Stranger in a Strange Land, not because of any thing about his views. I just thought these were silly.
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Interesting how everyone is different.
Three of the above are on the
Top 100 Sci-Fi books list and two of them were Hugo award winners. Two are listed as targeted to teenage boys and are part of what are referred to as Heinlein Juveniles. Starship Troopers was meant to be the 13th of the Heinlein Juveniles series but was turned down by Scribner, it ended up published by Putnam and won the Hugo for best novel.
Personally I have only read Stranger in a Strange Land in my early 20s and Starship Troopers just prior to the movie coming out. I recall enjoying both of these books quite a lot.
With 4 Hugo awards, I think it is safe to say that Robert Heinlein is not a Science Fiction author you should never read.