For anyone who appreciates good writing, this is a good book. This is in my opinion when heinlein starts to show his flair for adventure and heroism. If you don't love heinlein, this might give you a taste.

Aside from the supremely corny cover art, this is a truly great book. It is a short, thought-provoking story that was entertaining and kept me reading. This story is why the collection makes a contemporary reader uneasy, imo.

For anyone who fantasizes about how the future is going to be better than today, you have to check these stories out. No two stories are alike, though some characters reappear in other stories. No gaps and nothing unnecessary.

A fortuitous encounter with a group of advanced psychic elders upon/within mount shasta, the trio of beginners become adepts. Heinlein pushed the scale on male / female relationships, his politics were about serving your country, his science was about...  Read More

Elsewhen (1941) tells the adventures of five college students through time. A professor helps five of his students relocate to different universes. Elsewhen is so prescient that i can't make myself stop wondering whether robert was a self-aware visito...  Read More

Each has its moments of rip-roaring sci-fi fun, but none are particularly great as a whole. There's casual misogyny in the treatment of female characters. Pompous figures declaim at one another.