6/3/2023 0 Comments Heinlein orphans of the sky![]() We find out through Hugh, and the religious doctrine he experiences, that over hundreds, if not thousands of years, his society has regressed into a post-technology state. As a trainee, Hugh is given access to details that the majority of his neighbours do not. Universe tells us of Hugh Hoyland, a young man who becomes an apprentice scientist at the start of the story. Taken in this context, they are clearly products of early Heinlein. Universe was published after his short story Solution Unsatisfactory, published as by Anson MacDonald and later collected in The Worlds of Robert A Heinlein, but before We Also Walk Dogs (later published in The Green Hills of Earth, reviewed HERE) Common Sense was published after By His Bootstraps as by Anson MacDonald, but before Lost Legacy, published as by another pseudonym, Lyle Munroe. ![]() Putting it into context, the two novellas were originally published as Heinlein was making a name for himself in the magazines. In the latest of my Heinlein reviews we look at what is regarded as another addition to Heinlein’s Future History series, but one that was oddly delayed in its publication as a novel in the US, twenty-four years after its publication as two separate novellas in the pulp magazines. ![]()
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