IN RESPONSE TO YESTERDAY’S POST on the Heinlein junior novels, Brian Erst emails:

Glenn –

Saw your post on Farmer in the Sky. A great way to get the Heinlein Juveniles for a great price and in hardcover is to pick up the SFBC (Science Fiction Book Club) omnibus editions. I picked up four new hardcover volumes on Amazon that contain all 12 of the Scribner’s books, plus Starship Troopers and Podkayne of Mars for $14 – the S&H charges were more! For $30 all in, I got the whole lot – unfortunately, none were fulfilled by Amazon, so no “free” shipping via Prime.

Here are the links to each volume – the prices change, but I can’t imagine anyone having to spend more than $40 for the lot. The books themselves are very nice quality – far better than the paperback editions of the juveniles, which lately are published on very cheap stock.

Four Frontiers (Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, Red Planet, and Farmer in the Sky) .

To The Stars (Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones and The Star Beast) .

Inifinite Possibilities (Tunnel in the Sky, Time for the Stars and Citizen of the Galaxy) .

Outward Bound (Have Spacesuit—Will Travel, Starship Troopers, Podkayne of Mars) .

I’m very glad that these books are being kept alive. There’s not a lot to compare with them today, although John Varley’s Red Thunder is certainly in the same spirit. And, of course, the Miles Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold.