Review: Farmer in the Sky
Jun. 13th, 2005 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalInteresting change of pace from what I remember about Heinlein. In particular the protagonist, Bill, is no superman, though he is a Boy Scout and in possession of a fair amount of smarts. But he's still a kid/almost man, and makes mistakes driven by a teenager's pride and stubborness, especially in the beginning.
There's a fairly dark turn in the last third of the book, which I honestly didn't remember my first time reading it, and hit me as an incredibly shock this time around. Characters we like, or at least sympathize with die, and there's no bringing them back, unlike Heinlein's later years, when nobody he liked was likely to suffer more than temporary inconvience.
There's a fairly dark turn in the last third of the book, which I honestly didn't remember my first time reading it, and hit me as an incredibly shock this time around. Characters we like, or at least sympathize with die, and there's no bringing them back, unlike Heinlein's later years, when nobody he liked was likely to suffer more than temporary inconvience.
