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dreamshark) wrote2012-05-25 11:36 am
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Tunnel in the Sky
Eww. The Jubal Harshaw of this book is Deacon Matson. He's annoying enough with the endless stream of epigrams and the world-weary condescending attitude. But at least he doesn't have that squicky harem swarming around him, which is a relief. Then young Rod mentions his sister and old Deacon's ears perk up. "I must meet your sister sometime," he rumbles, as poor Rod scampers up the ramp to his close encounter with gruesome death. Please tell me that Rod doesn't come back from his adventure to find the creaky old Deacon engaged to his sister!
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Only peripherally related - As far as I can tell in real life, the huge age difference relationships often don't work out because both partners start off at the same level of emotional maturity, and eventually the younger one grows up.
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Most people -- kids -- make rational decisions about survival and sex. The society has problems, but survives. Bad decisions lead to bad outcomes, and brave people are rewarded. For the most part.
Not the book Heinlein should be remembered for, but a better-than-average sensawonda juvenile in the 50s.
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I dimly remember that by the end of the book the kids manage to put together a social structure that works pretty well, at least until the stobor show up.
Heinlein always seems to be affecting an air of cynicism about human institutions, but underneath that I think he's actually quite fond of hierarchical structure. To a fault, in fact.
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K.
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But if you haven't read Time For The Stars, you might have problems with the ending of that one.
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