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Farmer in the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein
A Boy Scout moves to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede to homestead and start a farm from scratch. Mildly interesting for the early ideas around terraforming and colonization. Meh.
I know this was written in the very early 50s, but aside from the fact that they’re on Ganymede, it could almost have been set in the then-present day. There was no consideration of how tech advanced enough to allow for interplanetary colonization (and somewhat hand-wave-y large-scale terraforming) might affect farming, other than having some machinery to grind up rocks into fine dirt ready to be mixed with imported treated soil.
And, of course, men and boys do their manly things, while the women cook, worry, or are brushed off as annoying.
I seem to be finding that I’m not a fan of early Heinlein.
I know this was written in the very early 50s, but aside from the fact that they’re on Ganymede, it could almost have been set in the then-present day. There was no consideration of how tech advanced enough to allow for interplanetary colonization (and somewhat hand-wave-y large-scale terraforming) might affect farming, other than having some machinery to grind up rocks into fine dirt ready to be mixed with imported treated soil.
And, of course, men and boys do their manly things, while the women cook, worry, or are brushed off as annoying.
I seem to be finding that I’m not a fan of early Heinlein.