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Never really been a great fan of Heinlein. I was happy enough with some of his earlier short stories, such as the collection "Green Hills of Earth", which I think was the first Heinlein I ever bought, way back when.
I also enjoyed "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", in which the hero is a computer, and which I interpreted as the American Revolution, re-imagined on the Moon. (Published in 1976). Much of his later work became less and less human, if that is the right word, more ideological, and less well written, too. I also read his posthumous book ("grumbles from beyond the grave?") without much enjoyment. I thought "Farnham's Freehold" was the pits. I couldn't find a single character in it to like.
I haven't read any of his more portentous and voluminous later novels in case they wash away my enjoyment of Green Hills and Harsh Mistress.
One of the early writers not mentioned, I think, is John Wyndham, "Day of the Triffids", "The Kraken Wakes", etc. Incidentally I read "wakes" in the title in the Irish funereal sense, rather than "awakes", so caused some mental confusion at first.
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