It was also ridiculously, and I feel unnecessarily, sexist. which Podkayne doesn't pick up on until she has everything explained to her). It had intergalactic racism (Podkayne overhears two characters disparaging her for her being a Marsmen) and political intrigue (a plotpoint that spurs the entire story on. It touched on a kind of "what if" sort of future (each couple allocated a set number of children only? And people FILL them? They're only allocations, not quotas) and different sorts of political systems that might possibly exist. or those who never grow out of adolescence) and an unarticulated lacking which made it clear he thought it wasn't very good overall.Īnd well, it was all right, from a storytelling point of view - it had danger, intrigue, plot, and whatnot. Podkayne's narrative voice is filled with bombastic overweening self-importance that only adolescents could ever have. most of Heinlein's aren't though, but he accused it of adolescence (an overrunning theme that was clear from the first few pages. FantasyechoMy brother Roy had warned me that Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars wasn't the best Heinlein book out there.
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