Well, I stopped short of wanting to throw the book across the room but overall it was a disappointment. And a lot of stuff with the bomb just doesn’t make sense to me. It started out promisingly enough, and I thought Poddy’s (Podkayne’s) jocular tone was fun at first. Her mother is even a big shot...
(Original Review, 1980-08-06)I was not a Heinlein fan before. I've probably read most of his work, but there are only 3 of his books I've kept to enjoy reading again. I've kept more than 3 of a LOT of other authors, such as Leinster, McCaffrey, Dickson, James White, and even Philip E. High. Nor did ...
Podkayne of Mars belongs to the period where Heinlein was transitioning from juvenalia to his more adult books. I've always preferred Heinlein's works for younger readers, especially the ones which are transitionary, such as Tunnel in the Sky or Starship Troopers.Readers might react to this book as...
It's possibly half a lifetime since I last read this book, an old edition with the upbeat ending forced on Heinlein by his publisher. I didn't realise quite how deeply this book had sunk into my hindbrain. Re-reading it after at least two decades, I can see its footprints all over my writing, and...
Poddy and MeIt's possibly half a lifetime since I last read this book, an old edition with the upbeat ending forced on Heinlein by his publisher. I didn't realise quite how deeply this book had sunk into my hindbrain. Re-reading it after at least two decades, I can see its footprints all over my wri...
So it seems Heinlein attempted to write "young adult" (or possibly what the book industry is now calling "new adult") fiction. Our main protagonist, the cheerfully ambitious and optimistic Podkayne Fries, is on her first journey to another planet, leaving her home planet of Mars with her politician...
I have a love/hate relationship with this particular book--really do, making this a very hard one to rate and review. By and large I'm a fan of Robert Heinlein. I love The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers and many of his juveniles, and if it weren't for what seemed the lesson of this one,...
It is interesting that this is the third Heinlein book that I have read and a quick flick through some of the reviews I notice a lot of people carrying on about how outdated and sexist this book is. Look, come off it, not only was this book written in 1963, meaning that it was before our own 'enligh...
It had been a while since I'd been exposed the that dirty old man, Heinlein. I was hoping that the sometimes fun and happy go lucky tone that I remembered could carry the story, but sadly, poor Podkayne becomes a teenage mouthpiece for his gender policing. She starts out with dreams of becoming a ...
I read this when I was quite young so any offensiveness went right over my head. I just loved it because it was a science fiction adventure story with a girl as the hero, a rarity in its time if not in mine.
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