What’s Your Favorite Robert A. Heinlein Novel, Vernor Vinge?

My favorite Heinlein novel is The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress; for some days after reading it, 22nd century cislunar-politics seemed more real than current geo-politics!

However, just thinking about the question provokes an avalanche of fondly remembered competitors, including:

• Between Planets, the first book I ever read (and which seems even sharper now than I remember it from the early 1950s!)
• The Star Beast
• Double Star, graceful and short (and even more interesting now that I have some Patterson-insight about Heinlein’s time in politics).

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Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve (978-0-7653-1960-9 / $29.99) will be available from Tor Books on August 17^th 2010.

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Related Links:

• Space Cadets and Starship Troopers
• David Brin: Beyond This Horizon
• David Drake: Starship Soldier
• David Hartwell: Double Star
• L.E. Modesitt, Jr.: Starship Troopers
• Rudy Rucker: Starman Jones, Citizen of the Galaxy, and Tunnel in the Sky
• Joan Slonczewski: Have Space Suit—Will Travel
• Charles Stross: Glory Road
• Michael Swanwick: Have Space Suit—Will Travel
• Robert A. Heinlein: The Tor.com Blog Symposium

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