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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I liked Thunder, but not Lightning. I'm not going to read the third book.
I don't know if it's true, but I've heard that he wrote the series in the style of Heinlein juveniles. If so, then Mr. Varley goofed. Each Heinlein juvenile stands alone.
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Not really. Varley is attempting to write YA SF in these books, and Heinlein's juveniles largely defined the form. But the
series wasn't the predominant format when RAH was writing his books. Now, it's hard to write a genre book and
not have expectations that it could become a series. If a book does well, the publisher will want more of the same, because they'll
sell.
If RAH were writing this sort of thing now, he'd face the same pressures.
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Dennis