Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> Jon wrote:
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> [snip]
> >I've suddenly found myself reading lots of Heinlein.
> [snip]
> >Anyone on the list have any thoughts about what
> >his best work is?
>
> I'm a big fan of his short stories. There's a great collection called The
> Unpleasant Profession of Johnathan Hoag (also published under another title
> which escapes me).
6 X H.
> It includes a really cool story about a house designed
> as an exploded tesseract, which then implodes...
"And He Built A Crooked House".
My father described that one to me when I was about 12. It was neat
when I read it for the first time, having heard him talk about it.
<snip further recommendations>
I'll just say, _The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_ is great, IMO, and if I'm
going to recommend just *one* Heinlein novel to someone, that's usually
it.
> I know you asked for a favorite, but it's really hard for me to pick just
> one. You can probably tell from this email that Heinlein is one of my
> favorite authors, right up there with The Killer B's, Vernor Vinge, Isaac
> Asimov, and (dare I admit this) Anne McCaffery (I really like her Pern
> books).
I got hooked on SF through the Pern books. Gateway drug. :) I don't
care for them quite as much now, but I'm glad they were around to snare
me. (And I'm still buying the new ones as they come out in paperback,
and some other Anne McCaffrey stuff as well. Not sure if I'm going to
continue with the series that began with _Freedom's Landing_, though, as
that one annoyed me a bit when I read it in the last trimester of
pregnancy.)
Julia
