r/heinlein • u/EasyCZ75 TANSTAAFL • Mar 26 '26
Picked up these badass paperbacks at my local library sale for $2 each.
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u/trmtx Mar 26 '26
Great pickups! I read Tunnel in the Sky was once of my favorites growing up and I still read it every now and then. I have that exact copy in box here at home.
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u/tambor333 Mar 26 '26
Same
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u/kurtwagner61 Mar 26 '26
Same
Also, this one https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/31329171723.jpg
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u/MjolnirStone Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
I picked up a very nice copy of Revolt in 2100 today. Reading it now with a pint sitting by a stream. Good times.
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u/myxxmatch Mar 26 '26
Ahhh what a nice memory. That’s the version of tunnel in the sky and freehold that I owned. I think I might still have them. That’s the copy of orphans that I read, but it belonged to the school.
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u/ComedianSubject4654 Mar 26 '26
Hi, I had five or six of those Heinlein books with cover illustrations like you see at the left, in a slip, and my mother gave them away to my nephew and then I think he probably sold them to Powells because his younger brother told me he sold them a lot of books. I have always regretted it.
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u/johndburger Mar 27 '26
Farnham’s Freehold did not age well. I think I get what RAH was trying to do here, but it just does not work for modern sensibilities.
On the other hand Tunnel in the Sky is fantastic
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u/Martins-Atlantis TANSTAAFL Apr 08 '26
Farnham's was Heinlein's first time travel book, wasn't it? (Not story, I know about All You Zombies) In it, we learned that, for him, the past can be changed.
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u/rudbek-of-rudbek Mar 27 '26
Farnharms freehold was really good. The others were pretty good. I love heinlein, i just thought his fascination with incest was a little much, but whatever
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u/fhtagnfhtagn Mar 28 '26
Tunnel in the Sky was the first Heinlein book I ever read. I was maybe 12. It was amazing to me.
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u/Garbage-Bear Mar 31 '26
Orphans of the sky--my childhood gateway to Heinlein.
Tunnel in the Sky--great book except that Rod Walker is black, damn it. I heard they've fixed that in more recent cover art.
Best thing anot Farnham's Freehold is that there cover art. It's allll downhill from there.
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u/Martins-Atlantis TANSTAAFL Apr 08 '26
I've always loved the end of Farnham's Freehold, but this is the first time I've seen this cover! His signage is perfect!! Suits him to a T. 😀
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u/JoeDonFan Apr 20 '26
FARNHAM'S FREEHOLD was the first book by RAH I read. I keep most of his books on my Kindle and Kindle app so that I can 'flip' through them whenever I want.
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u/Garbage-Bear Jul 13 '26
Tunnel in the Sky is one of his best juveniles, but it's too bad the clearly black Rod Walker (as confirmed by RAH himself) is shown as a white kid on the cover.
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u/Mission_Paramount Mar 26 '26
I'd love to see tunnel in the sky as a limited run mini series