![]() ![]() Beecher, the Earth’s administrational representative for the Mars company. Whilst there, Jim and his friend Frank Sutton, as well as Jim’s Martian pet, Willis the Bouncer have many adventures, often running up against the authoritarian head teacher, Mr. Jim Marlowe is a teenage colonist at boarding school on Mars. It was one of my early favourites.Īfter events in space and on the swampy planet Venus in Space Cadet, this one’s all about Mars. If I remember right, it was possibly my second or third Heinlein read, after Tunnel in the Sky, which I found, rather lost and forgotten, at the back of my school library. It is seen as the third in Heinlein’s ‘juvenile novels’ that were written for a teenage and predominantly (though not exclusively) male readership. Red Planet was Heinlein’s third published novel, after Space Cadet (reviewed here). ![]() This is one of an ongoing series of rereads, as I work through the Virginia Editions of Heinlein’s novels. ![]()
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