The Star Beast
The Star Beast was originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May–July 1954) as Star Lummox.
Lummox had been the Stuart family pet for years. Though far from cuddly and rather large, it had always been obedient and docile. Except, that is, for the time it had eaten the secondhand Buick...
But now, all of a sudden and without explanation, Lummox had begun chomping down on a variety of things – not least, a very mean dog and a cage of virtually indestructible steel. Incredible!
John Thomas and Lummox were soon in awfully hot water, and they didn't know how to get out. And neither one really understood just how bad things were – or how bad the situation could get – until some space voyagers appeared and turned a far-from-ordinary family problem into an extraordinary confrontation.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (1907–1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time. He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.
He was one of the first science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades. He, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.
Heinlein Juveniles
Heinlein Juveniles consists of 12 total books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
