Sorry, but I disagree entirely. In my opinion, Heinlein's work did not start getting better until Stanger in a Strange Land. Everything that came before was fairly rudimentary in my opinion. Competent, but not nearly as thought-provoking as his later stuff. I'm assuming there's some reason they label his earlier works "juveniles" ? Not having been a juvenile when I first went about trying to read them, perhaps my opinion differs from those who first experienced them at the proper time in their development?
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