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.
7 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Anderson'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,
The three Technic History stories that I had in mind were "How To Be Ethnic...," "Wingless" and "Rescue on Avalon."
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Oops! 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!
I 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,
I meant "The Year of the Ransom."
The story you mention is "The Little Monmster."
Paul.
Kaor, Nicholas and Paul!
Nicholas 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,
Surely "The Year of the Ransom" even more so?
Paul.
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