[irv]

Decent article, though it glossed over the greatness of much of his work, not just the couple most famous ones. I grew up loving books like Have Space Suit—Will Travel, Tunnel in the Sky (read and re-read until it fell apart), The Door into Summer and one of my favorites (go ahead and snicker): Podkayne of Mars.

Nobody wrote them like Heinlein did. Even when the story was not his best (Time Enough for Love comes to mind), the writing kept you riveted.

[B-Chan]

I'll be honest: I only like his juveniles. Space Cadet and Citizen Of The Galaxy are probably my favorites, but I like them all. The stuff he wrote during his "dirty old man" period (i.e. post-Starship Troopers) leaves me cold.

It would have been neat if my high school had possessed an armory like Patrick Henry High did in Tunnel In The Sky...

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The short story of “the man too lazy to fail” in “Time Enough for Love” is my favorite !

[TXnMA]

I have introduced each and every one of my children and grandchildren to the joys of reading science fiction by letting them read my Heinlein books.

I started the boys with Have Space Suit -- Will Travel. And I started the girls on The Star Beast. Those who are old enough to read are now voracious recreational readers -- especially of science fiction.

I read and enjoyed almost everything Heinlein wrote, but, in his latter years he "ran off the rails" toward free sex and pedophilia with his last few novels...