(We're talking about the Old Man in sff.net . . . )
RED PLANET was published in 1949; I was loaned a copy in 1952 or '53 by my fourth-grade teacher. It was the second book I ever read. She followed it up with THE ROLLING STONES and FARMER IN THE SKY.
Somewhere along the line I figured out that "Robert Heinlein" was a person, and not a brand of book. (Until I was ten or eleven, the idea of an author as one person was a little fuzzy. It is now, too, but that's a little esoteric.) So I went t...
Published on February 04, 2010 16:19