From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
As a novel, For Us, the Living is not very good. It reads like a cross between a movie script and a rather dry series of lectures on how to create a utopian society, over which Heinlein attempted to drape a slender plot.
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Heinlein fanatics, and there are many, will no doubt find many of the criticisms here overwrought. But Heinlein first-timers would do better to dip their reading toes in Stranger in a Strange Land or Starship Troopers. Only after immersion in Heinlein’s superior works can For Us, the Living be appreciated for what it is — a rather bad novel, but an essential one for those interested in exploring the birth of the Heinlein oeuvre.
Ouch.
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