Double Star

One of my best friends has a different favorite: Podkayne of Mars. My very favorite book (and one that stands out in my mind--and with much affection--to this day) is Tunnel in the Sky. From the Publisher Like many people, I go way, way back with Heinlein. I really, really wanted to go off to explore new worlds with a covered wagon and horses, like the hero does at the very end of the book. But one of the nice things about Robert Heinlein is that he's got something for everyone. Go figure.                        --Shelly Shapiro, Executive Editor

Smythe suddenly finds himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who has been kidnapped. One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is in a bar, drinking away his troubles. He soon realizes, however, that his masquerade could be permanent.. Peace with the Martians is at stake, and failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. Smythe knows nothing of the issues concerning interplanetary trade and equal rights for aliens, but the handsome compensation is impossible to refuse. Then a space pilot buys him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knows, he's shanghaied to Mars

"Perhaps Heinlein's most beloved book" according to GDS. A great story with Heinlein at the top of his game. Even though I own the paperbacks I've started to download the Kindle versions because the more recently released ones contains a Forward or Afterward on Heinlein writing the book or a commentary about the book overall. I find them to be worth the Kindle download and a great time-passer if I get stuck somewhere.Double Star was written when Virginia and Robert had moved to Colorado a. "Classic early Heinlein" according to Phil (not) in Magnolia. I first read Double Star at nearly fifty years ago. Heinlein was my favorite author as a youth when I was first discovering the worlds of Science Fiction, along with Asimov, Clarke, and many others. I've read pretty much everything he has written, most of them more than once.Double Star is one of the early Heinlein novels, originally published in 1956. It won the Hugo Award for that year as well, the first of five Heinlein Hugos. In. "The obscure distinction between performance and reality" according to TChris. Robert Heinlein is one of the legends of science fiction for a simple reason: he was a masterful storyteller. There have been finer prose stylists, and a few sf writers have crafted novels of greater power than Heinlein's, but rare are the authors who have so consistently grabbed a reader and commanded rapt attention from the first scene to the last, in novel after novel. Double Star isn't one of Heinlein's best novels, but it was g

He served five years in the US Navy and then attended graduate classes in mathematics and physics at UCLA. After a variety of jobs, he began to write science fiction in 1939. Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) was born in Missouri. Several of his books were New York Time bestsellers, and his worldwide bestsellers have been translated into twenty-tw