well I think it is a good story
a juvenile ,read half a lifetime
ago perhaps most recently.

it might have some good science as to
how the earth would be perceived etc
and as to living at such a remove
it is this I thought of in relation to yours.

it does,refreshing my memory from wikipedia,
retall stories of old american pioneer days
in this new setting and that is perhaps in
a sense anachronistic although of course
not perhaps entirely as pioneering may
have certain constants...

heinlein is a story teller and also in a way
a relentless moralist and usually there are
points where that annoys me a little... patently
they are usually more annoying still to liberals
but I have not achieved that level and yet still
find him off and on grating.