Again, because I feel compelled to come to RAH's defense...
The juveniles reflect that idea because they were marketed to 11-15-year-old-boys in a time when you could not market YA fiction to more than one gender. In "Expanded Universe," Heinlein recounted a discussion with an editor who complained of the lack of good YA fiction for girls, and as a result, he created "Maureen," the central character in what he intended to be a series of girls' YA stories. Nobody picked them up because nobody believed that "Rocketship" Heinlein could write for girls.
So, he retired Maureen unused (but for the one short in "Expanded Universe"), changed her name to Podkayne, and moved her to Mars. True story.
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Date: 2010-05-10 01:39 am (UTC)The juveniles reflect that idea because they were marketed to 11-15-year-old-boys in a time when you could not market YA fiction to more than one gender. In "Expanded Universe," Heinlein recounted a discussion with an editor who complained of the lack of good YA fiction for girls, and as a result, he created "Maureen," the central character in what he intended to be a series of girls' YA stories. Nobody picked them up because nobody believed that "Rocketship" Heinlein could write for girls.
So, he retired Maureen unused (but for the one short in "Expanded Universe"), changed her name to Podkayne, and moved her to Mars. True story.