Citizen Of The Galaxy

Citizen Of The Galaxy

1957 • 263 pages

Ratings13

Average rating3.6

15

I have read Citizen of the Galaxy several times over the decades. IMHO it is RAH's best work.
This time I decided to go with audio. Grover Gardner's narration is very good indeed.
The story of young Thorby's struggle to find his place in the galaxy has held up well. Heinlein packed a lot of story into this book. It has three distinct parts. I think of them as ‘Thorby the slave', ‘Thorby the spaceman', and ‘Thorby's homecoming'. (I reckon some more recent writers would get three 500 page books out of this story.)
Anyway, still a good story, well told. An SF classic.

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