5/11/2023 0 Comments Podkayne of marsDue to the unscheduled "uncorking" (birth) of their three remaining creche-frozen babies, Podkayne's parents are forced to cancel a much-anticipated trip to Earth. Podkayne is 15 in Earth years (a bit over eight Martian years) while her genius younger brother Clark is 11 Earth years (6 Martian years) old. The book is a first-person narrative in the form of Podkayne's diaries. Both books were written for a publisher expecting to market a juvenile science fiction novel, and both raised serious objections from the publisher. This book, along with Starship Troopers, shows Heinlein moving away from his old, comfortable territory of juvenile science fiction novels. The novel is about a teenage girl named Podkayne "Poddy" Fries and her younger, asocial genius brother, Clark, who leave their home on Mars to take a trip on a spaceliner to visit Earth, accompanied by their uncle. Heinlein, originally serialised in Worlds of If (November 1962, January, March 1963), and published in hardcover in 1963. Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Yup, Impossible Hourglass Figure all right.
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