Heinlein fan, here.
Just read this story a few months back......................
Heinlein rocks. He is the bedrock of my personal philosophy. Tanstaafl! (German for: stop bitching)
I could read well from a very young age. The local library wouldn’t allow children in the main section, so I searched the children’s level until I found some science and science fiction books because they had the most advanced vocabulary, etc.
‘Starship Troopers’ was one of the first acceptable books I found there and I was hooked on science and SF! About age seven.
I remember this story from long ago—a good one.
Thought Star Ship Trooper was great when I first read it
Not so much the second time around
I think Dahlquist and The Colonel’s Rebellion are also mentioned in Space Cadet.
bflr
Heinlein fan my whole life! Was hooked reading old Boy’s Life mags. My later fave was The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, my least fave was one of his Methusela’s Children books where he went back in time to seduce his Mother.
Time Enough For Love and The Notebooks of Lazarus Long...
Ping for later enjoyment. I think I prefer Jack Vance to Mr. Heinlein, but that’s more a distinction without much difference. They’re both great.
In my youth in the Military on Deployment I read Heinlein (all of them that I could get) then James Michener (big long books that last and last) then Leon Uris to try and understand the Middle East.
All the while I listened to cassette tapes (that I recorded at the Service Center) by Ray Charles, Nat “King” Cole, the Platters and a man that many years later I met and became an acquaintance to... and I will always call him my buddy Mr Fats Domino (Kindest Soul you could ever meet).
Good times, good memories.