I’ve mentioned this before, in a galaxy far away. But my favorite science fiction author is Robert Heinlein. I think I first ran across one of his juvenile science fiction novels in 6th grade. Novels like “Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, Farmer in the Sky, Between Planets, and The Rolling Stones drew me in. I followed up with everything I could find.
I never really got into his adult science fiction, although one of my favorites in Starship Trooper (nothing like the movie by the way).
The last of his novels I read was “The Number of the Beast”. It was okay. “Glory Road” was better put together though and that was written in 1963. I still have not read “Stanger in a Strange Land” which is considered by most to be his best work. My favorite is “Citizen of the Galaxy”.