Title: So-so
Product review: All of the tales are really pulpy, loaded with poor dialogue- wooden and stilted, weak characterization (especially females), and nothing really memorable occurs- in short, they are like bad movie serials. It's amazing just to compare juvenile sci fi written now, to that written half a century ago. Modern juvenilia, such as Nick Sagan's Idlewild, is enthralled with The Matrix-like pretensions, trying to seem hyper-cool, whereas Heinlein's limp efforts are more like a cross between futuristic seeming industrial films and Boy Scout propaganda.The three novels are Tunnel In The Sky, Time For The Stars, and Citizen Of The Galaxy....Heinlein is very heavyhanded, in this and all three books. To read these books and then read Stranger In A Strange Land, published just a few years later, suggests that Heinlein made a quantum jump upward in writing ability. Read the later book, and save these books to fill out your Heinlein library, if you're so inclined. That's about all they're really any good for.
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