Young Adult
ROCKET SHIP GALILEO.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This is the author's first book, preceded by a pamphlet printing a convention speech. "A pioneering novel that began American mainstream science fiction for children and combined young protagonists, gadgetry, current science, and adventure in such a way that even today the book retains interest."- Anatomy of Wonder 5-62. Basis for the 1950 film Destination Moon in which Heinlein also contributed to the writing of the screenplay.
ROCKET SHIP GALILEO.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The importance of this book cannot be overstated, as it is the first published novel (in book form), by one of the major, if not the most, important science fiction writer of post-war America. Heinlein established himself in the field of science fiction during the golden age of Astounding Science Fiction (starting in 1939), he would later introduce a generation of baby boomer children to this literary genre. After World War II, Heinlein's career expanded the reach of the genre by being published in the 'slick' magazines of the period (Saturday Evening Post and others) and he also began a series of juvenile novels to be published by the mainstream firm of Charles Scribner's Sons. Their reach was wide, especially into the library marketplace were many young children would encounter them. This title is "...the first US juvenile sf novel to reflect the new levels of characterization, style and scientific plausibility now expected in the field", "...it was the first in a series that represents the most important contribution any single writer has made to children's SF..." Clute and Nicholls: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1994), p. 554-557. "A pioneering novel that began American mainstream science fiction for children and combined young protagonists, gadgetry, current science, and adventure in such a way that even today the book retains interest." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-62. George Pal's 1950 film Destination Moon is loosely based on ROCKET SHIP GALILEO. Heinlein co-authored the screenplay and served as a technical advisor to the production, along with German rocket expert Hermann Oberth. Destination Moon, the first of Pal's many sf films, "has great historical importance: its commercial success initiated the sf film boom of the 1950s, after a decade that had contained almost no sf cinema at all. It has interest in hindsight, too, in the partial accuracy with which it anticipated the actual Moon landing of 1969. To this day, Destination Moon stands as a film obvious made by people who knew about science..." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1994), p. 324.
ROCKET SHIP GALILEO.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1947]. Octavo, illustrated by Thomas Voter, cloth. First edition. The importance of this book cannot be overstated, as it is the first published novel (in book form), by one of the major, if not the most, important science fiction writer of post-war America. Heinlein established himself in the field of science fiction during the golden age of Astounding Science Fiction (starting in 1939), he would later introduce a generation of baby boomer children to this literary genre. After World War II, Heinlein's career expanded the reach of the genre by being published in the 'slick' magazines of the period (Saturday Evening Post and others) and he also began a series of juvenile novels to be published by the mainstream firm of Charles Scribner's Sons. Their reach was wide, especially into the library marketplace were many young children would encounter them. This title is "...the first US juvenile sf novel to reflect the new levels of characterization, style and scientific plausibility now expected in the field", "...it was the first in a series that represents the most important contribution any single writer has made to children's SF..." - Clute and Nicholls: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1994), p. 554-557. "A pioneering novel that began American mainstream science fiction for children and combined young protagonists, gadgetry, current science, and adventure in such a way that even today the book retains interest." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-62. George Pal's 1950 film Destination Moon is loosely based on ROCKET SHIP GALILEO. Heinlein co-authored the screenplay and served as a technical advisor to the production, along with German rocket expert Hermann Oberth. Destination Moon, the first of Pal's many sf films, "has great historical importance: its commercial success initiated the sf film boom of the 1950s, after a decade that had contained almost no sf cinema at all. It has interest in hindsight, too, in the partial accuracy with which it anticipated the actual Moon landing of 1969. To this day, Destination Moon stands as a film obvious made by people who knew about science..." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1994), p. 324.
THE ROLLING STONES.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...the novel aptly illustrates the author's eminence as writer of science fiction for young readers." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-63.
THE ROLLING STONES.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1952]. Octavo, illustrations by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. Signed by Heinlein at the top of the credits page. "...the novel aptly illustrates the author's eminence as writer of science fiction for young readers." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-63. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-63.
THE ROLLING STONES.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1952]. Octavo, illustrations by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. "...the novel aptly illustrates the author's eminence as writer of science fiction for young readers." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-63. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-63.
SPACE CADET.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. Heinlein's second young adult SF novel. Influenced by the author's experience at the U.S. Naval Academy.
SPACE CADET.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. Heinlein's second young adult SF novel. Influenced by the author's experience at the U.S. Naval Academy.
THE STAR BEAST.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1954]. Octavo, illustration by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition.
THE STAR BEAST.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1954]. Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition.
THE STAR BEAST.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1954]. Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. A young adult science-fiction novel about a high school senior and an extraterrestrial pet.
STARMAN JONES.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1953]. Octavo, Illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. A Heinlein juvenile novel. "Striking are the detailed, convincing picture of spaceship operational procedures and the suspense whenever the ship must pass through an anomaly."- Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-64.
STARMAN JONES.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1953]. Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. A Heinlein juvenile novel. "Striking are the detailed, convincing picture of spaceship operational procedures and the suspense whenever the ship must pass through an anomaly."- Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-64.
STARMAN JONES.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1953]. Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. A Heinlein juvenile novel. "Striking are the detailed, convincing picture of spaceship operational procedures and the suspense whenever the ship must pass through an anomaly."- Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-64.
TIME FOR THE STARS
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1956]. Octavo, Illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel."- Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-92.
TIME FOR THE STARS
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-520.
TIME FOR THE STARS.
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1956]. Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. "Although written and marketed as a young adult novel, this book is a mature treatment of the relativistic time-dilation effect in interstellar travel." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-92.
TUNNEL IN THE SKY.
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by P.A. Hutchison (jacket and title page), cloth. First edition. "A provocative book, especially in its portrait of adults who fail to discern the maturity of young people." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-65.
FIRST BOY ON THE MOON.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel. Juvenile science fiction novel by the then Associate Editor of Popular Mechanics magazine. Two young boys get caught on the first space rocket to the moon. The author went on the write the Alvin Fernald children's mystery books.
DAY OF THE STARWIND.
New York: Atheneum, 1983. Octavo, cloth. Second U.S. printing. The third volume in the "Last Legionary" series. "One of the best examples of space opera for young readers...quick moving, suspenseful, action-filled." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-529.
DEATHWING OVER VEYNAA.
New York: Atheneum, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The second volume in the "Last Legionary" series. "One of the best examples of space opera for young readers...quick moving, suspenseful, action-filled." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-529.
THE HUNTSMAN.
New York: Atheneum, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The first volume in the "The Huntsman" series. Well regarded SF for youngsters.
PLANET OF THE WARLORD.
New York: Atheneum, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The fourth volume in the "Last Legionary" series. Well reg"One of the best examples of space opera for young readers...quick moving, suspenseful, action-filled." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-529.
YOUNG LEGIONARY.
New York: Atheneum, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The fifth and final volume in the "Last Legionary" series. Well regarded SF for youngsters."One of the best examples of space opera for young readers...quick moving, suspenseful, action-filled." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-529.
FIND THE FEATHERED SERPENT.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Hunter on the half title page. The author's first book. "A time travel tale involving a Wellsian time machine." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-78.