Hmm reording in my preference<\/p>\n
Have Space Suit\u2014Will Travel (1958)
\nCitizen of the Galaxy (1957)
\nStarman Jones (1953)
\nTime for the Stars (1956)
\nFarmer in the Sky (1950)
\nTunnel in the Sky (1955)
\nThe Rolling Stones (1952)
\nThe Star Beast (1954)
\nSpace Cadet (1948)
\nRocket Ship Galileo (1947)
\nBetween Planets (1951)
\nRed Planet (1949)<\/p>\n
And yes Space Nazis is silly NOW but it was written in 1947 and so is a reasonable period thing. That said it still is a bit of a loser as a story:-) . Have Space Suit is clearly the best of the best. I read both Between Planets and Red Planet, but other than the Venusian Isaac Newton I remember little. For a Heinlein piece of writing that tells me it was unremarkable (although likely superior to many \u201cHugo\u201d award winners since the early 2000\u2019s)<\/p>\n
As to Starship Troopers that is a special case and I need to recuse myself from that judgement. You see it was the first Heinlein I read when I purchased it for 75 cents at a book fair in 6th grade. So I did read it in the time period for a Juvenile. It certainly has many of the Heinlein juvenile tropes with a just out of teenage protagonist (The literary types if they deigned to read Heinlien might call it a Bildungsroman). There is NO sex and perhaps a little romantic\/sexual tension.<\/p>\n
One might argue that Starship Troopers being an intentional polemic to duty is of a larger import than the Juveniles, and yet Have Space Suit deals with the complexities of who rules and how they rule with Three Galaxies, Citizen of the Galaxy takes on slavery and the fact of people ignoring it for their own profit, Starman Jones deals with the issues of having cheated to break out of an unfair system and the consequences (admittedlythey DO get Deus ex Machinaed out of the way), I can\u2019t say I wouldn\u2019t give Starship Troopers to a young person (Having myself benifitted from it although the powered armor was more of interest than the politics to a 6th grader). And it sits closer to the Juveniles in style and feel than either Stranger in a Strange land or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. If I must put it in the Juveniles it goes before Have Space Suit. But as I noted I am biased and one never forgets their first love.<\/p>\n
As a separate issue should Podkayne of Mars be in this list. It is an oddball (and not published for the same publisher) but yet other than a female protagonist it certainly fits the mold as well as Starship Troopers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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