![]() ![]() ![]() Orphans of the Sky fit the mold of pulp SF because it was pulp SF. Tanner, and Edmond Hamilton - and movies like Star Wars and Alien - that was filling my head up at the time. It was packed full of interesting characters and genuine surprises, and fit in well with the pulp SF by Asimov, Charles R. Why’d I make so many attempts? Because the first Heinlein I ever read, the slender paperback novel titled Orphans of the Sky, was a slam-bang adventure tale set on a six mile-long spaceship that twisted my head around. I found Stranger in a Strange Land dull and unbelievable, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress resisted every attempt I made to get past the first 20 pages. I never read his juveniles, and I bounced hard off of Friday. Even in my teens, when I was devouring any science fiction between covers, I didn’t get the appeal. ![]()
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