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Red Planet (Heinlein's Juveniles, #3)

Robert A. Heinlein

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 8891 Users | 342 Reviews

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Title	:	Red Planet (Heinlein's Juveniles, #3)
Author	:	Robert A. Heinlein
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	September 26th 2006 by Del Rey (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Young Adult

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This was, hands down, my favorite Heinlein book as a teen. I read it at least 4 or 5 times. I really need to read it again as an adult, but Heinlein ... always an iffy proposition. Though this is one of his early juvie novels, so it's safer than, say, Time Enough for Love.

Two teenage boys, part of the human colonies on Mars, are sent away to boarding school in the biggest city on Mars. In between getting into trouble with the new, insanely strict headmaster, they find out about a plot that could endanger both humans and the native Martians. It’s up to these two boys to save their hometown and their Martian friend from the nefarious forces of evil.

Heinlein is especially imaginative here, with the unique Martian civilization and the realistic (at least for the time) details about humans trying to survive in the hostile environment of Mars. There's a pretty heavy gun ownership rights theme running through this book that may irk some readers, the sexual roles are straight from the 1950s (Red Planet was written in 1949, so understandable enough), people in authority tend to be corrupt and/or incompetent, and you have to be able to suspend disbelief in light of what we now know about life on Mars. Other than that, it's a rockin' story!

But no matter what, I will always adore Willis the Martian with my entire heart and soul.

Sing ¿Quién es la Señorita? one more time, Willis!

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Original Title:	Red Planet
ISBN:	0345493184 (ISBN13: 9780345493187)
Characters:	Jim Marlow, Willis the Bouncer, Doc MacRae, Francis "Frank" Sutton, Gekko, Headmaster Howe, Mr. Beecher
Setting:	Mars
Literary Awards:	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (1996)

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Ratings: 3.8 From 8891 Users | 342 Reviews

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This is THE ONE. The first book to capture me.It left my 12 year-old mind reeling and set my consuming, voracious hunger for sci-fi into motion. Of course I had "read" other books in school, but Red Planet blew me away. I was transported.Never to return.Here's the cover that I remember from 55 years ago.Full size image here

3.5 StarsA simplistic but fun plot. The highlight of the book was the interesting martians. Heinlein's mysterious, awe-inspired way of looking at the martians reminded me of C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy. There was the usual Heinlein sexism, but it was more amusing than grating if you keep in mind the time that this was written. It was enjoyable to try one of Heinlein's juvenile/YA books, and the narrator was good.

It took me too long to get through this relatively short book, because it drags. The beginning starts slow, there's a bit of an adventure on Mars that heightens things for a while, but then the book grinds down to a finish with a trial and dithering. This is one of Heinlein's early works. I believe they were called "juveniles", because they were meant for kids. This sort of writing and level of excitement might have engaged kids when it was published in 1949, but I can't see kids today enjoy

This was a no nonsense adventure story, set on the planet Mars. Its main audience is young adult, even a little younger if they're avid readers, but it wasn't that childish after all and actually holds a few lessons.The story is fairly simple. It's set in a distant future where colonies on Mars are actually a fact. We follow two friends, Jim and Frank, both sixteen years old, who embark on a trip to their new school.On this trip they spend some time with the native inhabitants of the planet, the

Mars as was to be if there were Martians on it. wonderful short story that brings to me the social aspects of a colony in mars and the relationship with mother earth. who knows best how to live in Mars? the settlers who live there all year round or the Company managers from earth who go there for small periods of some years? I liked very much this relationship and also the creativity of Heinlein in devising such interesting Martians. many of the interactions of Martians with humans may one day

2014: Red Planet initially wasn't one of my favorites, but it has grown on me over the years. I just finished reading it with the kids, and I think it is their favorite thus far, perhaps after The Star Beast. I don't think even that novel resulted in as many instances of staying up late and demanding to sit in the car a little longer and listen as did this one.