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| Reading List Hi Everybody I have just purchased the following Heinlein books and wondered what order I should read them in and if there any gaps in between need filling
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress The Rolling Stones Methuselah's Children Time Enough for Love The Number of the Beast The Cat Who Walks Through Walls To Sail Beyond the Sunset | |
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Was not a fan of time enough for love, myself. But to each their own. | |
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| Re: Reading List Heinlein's Future History Methuselah's Children (1941) The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950) The Green Hills of Earth (1951) Revolt in 2100 (1953) Orphans of the Sky (1963) The Past Through Tomorrow (1967) Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long (1973) I would recommend reading his late books much later than his early Future History books. |
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The Past Through Tomorrow (which includes Methuselah's Children as well) Orphans of the Sky Time Enough for Love And, actually, his following novels were also a part of that series (at least, I would certainly include them, given the number of connections -- often much tighter connections than one sees between several of the shorter tales -- and the fact that Laz and Maureen play such large parts in them): The Number of the Beast The Cat Who Walks Through Walls To Sail Beyond the Sunset | |
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| Re: Reading List Thats good to know since i got Number of the Beast for some reason earlier. It was later work so i havent read it, good instinct for that. Heh Life-Line is the first story in my Expanded Universe. Of course i will not go for the collections and only for The Past Through Tomorrow. I always thought Methuselah's Children was a novel only.I guess the novella is enough read if you want to read most of his Future History? Last edited by Connavar; 12th November 2009 at 12:24 PM. |
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| Re: Reading List Wiki can be a good source for a lot of things, but one does have to approach it with caution. I could be mistaken (it has been some years since I last read the separate novel form of Methuselah's Children to compare the two), but if my memory serves, this is that version. EDIT: Yep. Must be. I just compared the two. The paperback novel from Signet comes to 160 pp., that in The Past Through Tomorrow comes to 176 pp. Given the very slight difference in design (use of white space, etc.), that seems about right.... |
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