I'd recommend it for light reading to get away from the nightly news.

The story is a fun one of a family in the future who live on the moon and are bored with it so they do the equivalent of a space RV trip. When he was writing, that was futuristic stuff! Still, it's interesting to see how close he got to 'future' developments in concept back then if not by technology. It was unabridged but dramatized which helped put me in that retro mood that Heinlein's Sci-Fi now evokes. 'I love most of Heinlein's stuff, and this book I 'read' via audiobook. Oddly enough, it’s alsoĪ true example of real family values, for when you’re a Stone, your family is This lighthearted tale has some of Heinlein’s sassiestĭialogue-not to mention the famous flatcats incident. Reaches of the stars, with stops on Mars, some asteroids, Titan, and beyond. Before long they are headed for the furthest Hilarious family in all of science fiction. It all starts when the twinsĭecide that life on the lunar colony is too dull and buy their own spaceship to Their way across the solar system in the company of the most high-spirited and Join the Stone twins as they connive, cajole, and bamboozle Their grandmother Hazel would know they came by it honestly. Written in that spot on their birth certificates. Even so, it’s clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have “Trouble” It doesn’t seem likely for twins to have the same middle

One of Heinlein’s best-loved works, The Rolling Stones follows the rollicking adventures of the Stone family

The rolling stones by robert heinlein