[TrueKnightGalahad]

Thanks! I never realised that Brenda Strong, who also played Sue Ellen Mischke on Seinfeld, was in the abominable Starship Troopers; if ever I see it again I’ll have something else to look for beside the shower scene. ;-P

Your list of Heinlein’s works omits the novel “For Us The Living: A Comendy of Customs,” which was his first novel, written in 1938 but unpublished ‘til 2004, long after his death. It’s an interesting read — very unlike the polished writer we came to know, but rich with ideas fleshed out in later works.

[Bender2]

Re: Your list of Heinlein’s works omits the novel “For Us The Living: A Comendy of Customs,” which was his first novel, written in 1938 but unpublished ‘til 2004, long after his death. It’s an interesting read — very unlike the polished writer we came to know, but rich with ideas fleshed out in later works.

It was not "my" list but a listing from "The Works of Robert A. Heinlein " website...

Also not listed are several works Heinlein published under pen names including Anson McDonald, Lyle Monroe, Caleb Saunders, John Riverside, and Simon York...

I read For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs and can well agree with Heinlein's reasons for not publishing it while he was alive. I seem to recall his comment on it as being along the lines of "We all stumble when learning to walk, but some stumbles are better forgotten than others..."

Yet I enjoyed it even if it was not up to his best effort. However, when you realize it was among his very first efforts, it does tell a lot about the fantastic writer he did become.

[Bender2]

Sorry if I sound gruff in my previous post to you...

Hey, us Brenda Strong admirers have to stick together!

Has she not had on a sweater under that bra... I'd still be crashing my car!

[zeugma]

Your list of Heinlein’s works omits the novel “For Us The Living: A Comendy of Customs,” which was his first novel, written in 1938 but unpublished ‘til 2004, long after his death. It’s an interesting read — very unlike the polished writer we came to know, but rich with ideas fleshed out in later works.

Any serious Heinlien fan should check out "For Us The Living". Not because it is a great novel, because it really isn't, but because it shows how much of what later became central points to Heinlein stories were present right there at the beginning, in 1938.