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I'm not a big reader of sci-fi, or even plain old "fi" for that matter, but I did read Farmers in the Sky. and really enjoyed it. I love frontier history, and in that novel, he took it out a whole new door. Very cool. I have read some of his more popular and lauded titles, but that one was my personal fave.

Yeah, that's a great novel, not one of my top five favorite Heinlein titles, but still I reread it every couple of years... Heinlein opened up science fiction to me when I was ten or eleven, and it's possibly nostalgia for those first few years when the wonder was so new that makes me still consider him the best. Or maybe he just is the best! Did you read/like Tunnel in the Sky? As a kid, that was my favorite; later I began to see that it was more than just a Robinson Crusoe adventure story, there was all this deeper stuff too that made it as good read as a teen as it was as a younger kid.