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So I'm deeply puzzled here, at the discovery that in all these book notes that I've posted over the years, none of them are about a Heinlein book. I've read lots and lots of them, but I guess it was all when I was younger. Or the more recent ones all just escaped being written up.
Between Planets is great solid vintage Heinlein, about a young man coming of age in a time of wonders, a rebelious colony on Venus, a secret society of scientists devoted to furthering the cause of freedom, an ancient race of wise reptilians who call themselves "Sir Isaac Newton" and "Little Buttercup" and so on, and a last-minute rescue in the skies over Mars. Wonderful reading when you need a little shot of idealism, of adventure, of hope or escape.
(And you can smile fondly at the little retrofuturistic touches, too; the occasional high-tech punchcard reader, or the secret messages encoded onto microscopically fine wires which are then played out as audio through a fancy wire-player. But there aren't enough of these to be at all annoying; Heinlein's future isn't very obsolete at all. It's not what actually happened, but it's not full of howlers. Smart guy, Heinlein.)
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