Star Lummox aka The Star Beast (Heinlein Juveniles 08) by Robert A. Heinlein
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Overview: The Heinlein juveniles are the science fiction novels written by Robert A. Heinlein for Scribner’s young-adult line. Each features "a young male protagonist entering the adult world of conflict, decisions, and responsibilities." Together they tell a loosely-connected story of space exploration. Scribner’s published the first twelve between 1947 and 1958, but rejected the thirteenth, Starship Troopers. That one was instead published by Putnam. A fourteenth novel, Podkayne of Mars, is sometimes listed as a "Heinlein juvenile", although Heinlein himself did not consider it to be one.
The intended market was teenage boys, but the books have been enjoyed by a wide range of readers. Heinlein wanted to present challenging material to children, such as the firearms for teenagers in Red Planet. This led to "annual quarrels over what was suitable for juvenile reading" with Scribner’s editors.
In addition to the juveniles, Heinlein wrote two short stories about Scouting for boys and three short stories featuring Puddin’, a teenage female protagonist, for girls.
The Star Beast is a 1954 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a high school senior who discovers that his extraterrestrial pet is more than it appears to be. The novel was originally serialised, somewhat abridged (as Star Lummox), in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May, June, July 1954) as Star Lummox and then published in hardcover as part of Scribner’s series of Heinlein juveniles.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Star Lummox (ed. Jerry eBooks 2016)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Part One, May 1954, Volume 6, No. 5; Part Two, June 1954, Volume 6, No. 6; Conclusion, July 1954, Volume 7, No. 1
The novel is set in the future. Earth has had interstellar spaceflight for centuries and has contact with numerous extraterrestrial species, which is handled by a department of the Earth government. John Thomas Stuart XI, the teenage protagonist, lives in a small Rocky Mountain town, Westville, caring for Lummox, an extraterrestrial beast which he inherited from his great-grandfather who brought it home from an interstellar voyage. The pet has learned how to speak, and has gradually grown from the size of a collie pup to a ridable behemoth—especially after consuming a used car. The childlike Lummox is perceived to be a neighborhood nuisance and, upon leaving the Stuart property one day, causes substantial property damage across the city of Westville. John’s widowed mother wants him to get rid of it, and brings an action in the local court to have it destroyed.
The Star Beast (book)
Lummox has been the pet of the Stuart family for generations. With eight legs, a thick hide and huge (and growing) size, Lummox is nobody’s idea of man’s best friend. Nevertheless, John Stuart XI, descendant of the starman who originally brought Lummox back to Earth from a distant planet, loves him. John isn’t about to let the authorities take his pet away and, with his best friend Betty, determines to save Lummox even if it takes leaving the life he’s known forever. However, what John and Betty don’t realize is that the survival of the Earth itself may depend on the true nature of The Star Beast.
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For Heinlein Juveniles see also https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=2569908&hilit=Robert+Heinlein
Tunnel in the Sky (1955): https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=3593152&hilit=Tunnel+in+the+Sky+Robert+Heinlein
Starship Troopers (1959) (rejected by Scribner’s, published by Putnam’s): https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=4181164&hilit=Starship+Troopers+Robert+Heinlein
