Knowing she's lying, Pod loses her temper instead of saying why she wants to contact her boss, then proceeds to Ditch the Bodyguards and follow up the clue herself, falling right into the kidnapper's hands. She tries to contact the local authority but his secretary claims she doesn't know where he is. Clark leaves an If I Do Not Return message for his sister.Fortunately an older woman shows her how it should be done. Cosmetic Catastrophe: Podkayne tries to imitate garish makeup from a magazine cover.Revolutionary war hero, always has time for her when her parents don't, and a secret ambassador for Mars. Colonized Solar System: Earth has colonies on Luna, Venus and Mars.Aerith and Bob: The two siblings are named Podkayne and Clark.The company that makes it pays the taxi company to force the ads on their captive customers, though the passengers can bribe the cabbie to at least lower the volume. Podkayne and Gertie even have a hologram of a devil appear inside their taxi and try to get them to buy an addictive drink called Hi-Ho. Advert-Overloaded Future: While on Venus people are constantly barraged by ads.The 1993 edition published by Baen Books included both versions of the ending and invited readers to write in and say which they preferred and why a subsequent Baen edition included several of the resulting essays as bonus material and reported a clear preference for the original ending. Heinlein's publisher classed the work with his 'juveniles' (works for younger readers), and forced him to change an aspect of the ending which was considered inappropriate for that market, over his objections that in doing so they were missing the point of the story.

The story was first serialized in Worlds of If magazine in 1962-1963, before appearing in book form in 1963.

Along the way, they get involved in machinations surrounding an upcoming diplomatic conference. Teenager Podkayne Fries and her asocial genius kid brother, Clark, go on a family trip on a space liner from their home planet of Mars to Earth by way of Venus. Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert A.

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