one Time Patrol installment;
three Technic History stories;
"Escape the Morning" (see here, here, here and here);
Vault of The Ages.
I mention this because I am rereading James Blish's The Star Dwellers, which is Heinleinian in:
its insistence that education should not be painless and that car drivers should know calculus;
its pairing of a teenage cadet with an older mentor;
its presentation of a private company exploiting space and also of a Secretary for Space coping with potential interstellar crises -
- and I wish that our crises were interstellar, not just Terrestrial.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteAnderson's "The Season Of Forgiveness" might have been meant as juvenile SF, but it never SEEMED like that to me. True, the POV character was a boy, but he was not in the least childish.
Sean
Sean,
DeleteThe three Technic History stories that I had in mind were "How To Be Ethnic...," "Wingless" and "Rescue on Avalon."
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
DeleteOops! I thought of "Wingless" and "Rescue on Avalon" but not "How To Be Ethnic..." That last story also didn't SEEM "juvenile" to me.
Sean
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI don't recall any Time Patrol installment that I would call a juvenile, although some are written at a less sophisticated level than others. Could you be thinking of a non-Patrol time travel story (I forget the title) where an American boy visiting relatives in Spain accidentally turns on a time machine and finds himself several hundred thousand years in the past? As I recall, he uses fire or a fire-hardened spear to drive off a lion, and that's how his remote ancestors learn to use fire.
Best Regards,
Nicholas D. Rosen
Nicholas,
DeleteI meant "The Year of the Ransom."
The story you mention is "The Little Monmster."
Paul.
Kaor, Nicholas and Paul!
DeleteNicholas and Paul: Paul beat me to mentioning "The Little Monster." (Smiles) And it was "Gibraltar Falls" which seemed the most juvenile "like" of the Time Patrol stories. The POV character is a very young, still somewhat diffident recent recruit to the Patrol.
Sean
Sean,
DeleteSurely "The Year of the Ransom" even more so?
Paul.