This new version of the book is a bit special - when Heinlein wrote the story in the early sixties his editor found the ending to hard and he (Heinlein) was forced to rewrite it. As can be expected from Heinlein the book is very well written and it's very hard not to get to love Paddy even if she is very naive and goody-goody. "Poddy" gets to travel the solar system with her smaller brother Clarke and her old uncle Tom - they get into all kinds of trouble and adventure. Podkayne of Mars is a juvenile or "young adult" story about a 16 year old mars girl (she's not a martian - there's a race of native martians that's called martians - therefore humans on mars is not called martians). I've always had strange feelings about Heinlein - I love most of his stories, but almost all of them leave me with a strange taste in my mouth, maybe it's because I agree with a lot of the opinions that are to be found in his stories, but at the same time I hate some of them (his ideas about women and children for example). One that I for some strange reason hadn't read before. One of the good old stories from the golden age of SF. Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by the legendary author Robert A Heinlein.
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