[Tanniker Smith]

Hienlien is always good, try: Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, Glory Road

Time to revisit him. I had to read him in high school and while I made it through "Starship Troopers", I only got this far through SiaSL: "John Valentine Smith was born on Mars."

TS

[PMCarey]

I have mixed feelings about "Stranger in a Strage Land". Loved it as an adolescent, but not as enthralled nowadays. However there's a lot of Heinlein that is superb. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is his best IMHO, but also worth reading (among many others) are:

• Double Star
• Starship Troopers
• The Door into Summer
• Friday
• Have Spacesuit Will Travel
• Tunnel in the Sky
• Farmer in the Sky

I'm not thrilled with his later work (other than "Friday"). His short fiction is quite wonderful too. Try to locate his collection of Future History stories in "The Past Through Tomorrow". For a collection of short fiction and essays, see "Expanded Universe". All-in-all some really good stuff.