Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Home Planet: The “Other” in Robert Heinlein’s Juvenile Science Fiction

C. W.  Sullivan III

Vol. 26 No. 2 (2020)

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Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Home Planet: The “Other” in Robert Heinlein’s Juvenile Science Fiction

Published January 4, 2021

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C. W. Sullivan III

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C. W. Sullivan III
East Carolina University
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ethnicity, gender, home planet, race, Robert A. Heinlein, the “Other”

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Published date: 2021-01-04

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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)