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Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

Vol. 26 No. 2 (2020)
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Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Home Planet: The “Other” in Robert Heinlein’s Juvenile Science Fiction

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January 4, 2021
Author
C. W. Sullivan III
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Keywords
ethnicity gender home planet race Robert A. Heinlein the “Other”
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Sullivan III, C. W. “Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Home Planet: The ‘Other’ in Robert Heinlein’s Juvenile Science Fiction”. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, Jan. 2021, https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/8692.
Abstract

This essay examines Heinlein's Young Adult (YA) stories—commonly referred to as his “juveniles”—and argues that Heinlein's "Others" are not defined by race, gender, or planet of origin but by their inability to understand and deal with the changes that inter-planetary travel will bring. (CWS)