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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The only ones referred to as "juveniles" are those that were explicitly written for what would now be called the YA market:
Rocket Ship Galileo, 1947
Space Cadet, 1948
Red Planet, 1949
Farmer in the Sky, 1950
Between Planets, 1951
The Rolling Stones aka Space Family Stone, 1952
Starman Jones, 1953
The Star Beast, 1954
Tunnel in the Sky, 1955
Time for the Stars, 1956
Citizen of the Galaxy, 1957
Have Space Suit—Will Travel, 1958
Some also include Starship Troopers and Podkayne of Mars. |
Thanks. I see what caused my confusion. Wikipedia has the novels divided into Early, Middle and Late; with the Scribner's "juveniles" denoted with asterisks. I was assuming all of the early novels were considered part of his "juvenile" series.
I didn't attempt to read
Starship Troopers until after I was in my thirties. I just don't think it held up very well (despite its groundbreaking technological "predictions" at the time. It seemed very "Boys Life"-ish to me. Perhaps if I'd read it at an impressionable age, I'd feel differently about it (and his Early novels in general).