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Originally posted by Pandora
If I still had my copy, I wouldn't part with it again either.
Love Starship Troopers, others in my top selections would be'Time Enough For Love' or 'The Past Through Tomorrow'
Never have understood the hoopla over Stranger in a Strange Land - least favourite of all RAH.
Informal poll: older works or works before he passed away?
I vote older works.
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All of them. The difference is about what he could get away with writing. Before he passed away, anything with his name would sell, so he had the opportunity to write things like "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" that editors would not have bought earlier in his career. I think his greatest works "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", "Farnham's Freehold", "Starship Troopers", "The Green Hills of Earth" are earlier works, but as a body of work, I think the later stuff is stronger (no "Have Spacesuit will Travel" or "Podkayne of Mars").