Red Planet (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert A. Heinlein
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Science fiction
- Subjects: Colonialism, Teenagers, Revolutions, Schools or school life, Colleges or universities, Pets, Mars
- Locales: Mars
The third of Heinlein's juvenile novels, Red Planet was his first story to describe the Martian culture to which he would return in Stranger in a Strange Land. The main Martian character, however, is not the adult biped described in that book but a bouncy, spherical nymph named Willis. Willis is kept as a pet by a human colonist named Jim Marlowe, who is unaware that Willis belongs to the same race as the tall, silent, dominant species who built the ancient Martian cities.
As the story begins, Jim and his friend Frank Sutton enter college at Lowell Academy...
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