Much to my surprise, it endures very well. Picking it up in my late middle age, I wondered how it would survive the test of time and my own maturity. I first read "Time for the Stars when I was in Middle School, and I liked the novel very much at that time. Heinlein's "juvenile" science fiction novels have introduced generations of young readers to the literature of science fiction and it is perhaps this for which Heinlein is best known. Many of Heinlein's "juvenile" sci-fi novels, this one included, do both, but nevertheless succeed in reaching a fully adult readership as well. The term "juvenile" is not a pejorative - it mainly denotes a science fiction novel that is aimed at young people or which features a young protagonist. "Time for the Stars" is an excellent science fiction novel of the "juvenile" genre that was the great Robert A.
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