# Poll: Robert Anson Heinlein Juveniles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robert-anson-heinlein-juveniles/562438 "2010-11-30T18:43:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robert-anson-heinlein-juveniles/562438/21 "2010-12-01T15:50:29Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > [You want the adult poll then](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13201289#post13201289) It’s classed as an adult novel??? That surprises me greatly. It’s only 128 pages long and features a nutty mutant sidekick. As an adult novel, it’s a lesser work. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robert-anson-heinlein-juveniles/562438/22 "2010-12-01T16:09:04Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > It’s classed as an adult novel??? That surprises me greatly. It’s only 128 pages long and features a nutty mutant sidekick. As an adult novel, it’s a lesser work. Well I did not set up the poll, but as it was not officially one of the Juveniles, I guess by default it went to the other poll. Here is the list of the **The Scribner’s juveniles** and the girls’ stories. > **[Heinlein juveniles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinlein_juveniles)** > > The Heinlein juveniles are the science-fiction novels written by Robert A. Heinlein for Scribner's young-adult line. Each features "a young male protagonist entering the adult world of conflict, decisions, and responsibilities". Together, they tell a loosely connected story of space exploration. Scribner's published the first 12 between 1947 and 1958, but rejected the 13th, Starship Troopers. That one was instead published by Putnam. A 14th novel, Podkayne of Mars, is sometimes listed as a " ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robert-anson-heinlein-juveniles/562438/23 "2010-12-01T17:53:36Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Well I did not set up the poll, but as it was not officially one of the Juveniles, I guess by default it went to the other poll. > > Here is the list of the **The Scribner’s juveniles** and the girls’ stories. > > [Heinlein juveniles - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinlein_juveniles) Yeah but by the measure _Heinlein’s Juveniles are Scribner’s Juveniles_, “Podkayne” isn’t a juvenile either. Which is ridiculous of course. Where the correct definition of a juvenile – “book written for a teen/pree-teen audience” – is applied “Orphans” clearly qualifies. I OBJECT, your honor. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robert-anson-heinlein-juveniles/562438/24 "2010-12-01T18:44:47Z")
I had a hard time choosing, as I liked just about all of the books. Farmer in the Sky, maybe not as much, and Rocket Ship Galileo, being his first, was not the best. But as a young person I enjoyed them. RSG had what was perhaps the first Jewish character I’d ever noted in the books I’d read up until then. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robert-anson-heinlein-juveniles/562438/25 "2010-12-01T20:41:00Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > Yeah but by the measure _Heinlein’s Juveniles are Scribner’s Juveniles_, “Podkayne” isn’t a juvenile either. Which is ridiculous of course. Where the correct definition of a juvenile – “book written for a teen/pree-teen audience” – is applied “Orphans” clearly qualifies. > > I OBJECT, your honor. 😃 OotS was written in the early '40s, before there was a separate market for juveniles in sf (out side of Tom Swift, I suppose.) Where it was published was not an issue - Citizen of the Galaxy was serialized in Astounding, and the Star Beast was serialized in F&SF for two examples. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robert-anson-heinlein-juveniles/562438/26 "2010-12-01T20:45:51Z")
I love Podkayne, but Star Beast is my other favorite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-robert-anson-heinlein-juveniles/562438.md?page=1)