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The first I ever read was "Starship Troopers" because it was right next to the reference section where they kept the MoH recipient biography. I was looking them up at the public library when I was in 6th grade. The first I ever bought was "Between Planets" at a yard sale. And "The Rolling Stones" was partial inspiration for my short story in the "Giant Squeeing Robots" antho. So I guess you could say that I'm a fan of his juveniles, but not of his mature, more experimental works, too. 🙂

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A. Kristina Casasent's avatar

Awesome! My first Heinlein's were Red Planet and The Star Beast. As I recall, I think our graduate student neighbor gave them to me. I was in grammar school I think. We lived in the former bachelor officer quarters duplexes right off-campus from Texas A&M.

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