There is no way I could narrow it down to ten. Fifty would be tough, but a hundred would be more realistic. The first three to five would be pretty easy, but after that, the competition would be impossible to sort through.
1. Stranger in a Strange Land
2. Ender's Game
3. Dies the Fire
4. Time Enough For Love
5. The Mote in God's Eye
Would it then be Earth Abides, or Old Man's War or Lucifer's Hammer? You'll see a lot of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, that's for sure. Where would Spider Robinson's collaboration with Heinlein's Ghost fit into the list? It would be really, really high (like Spider, I suppose), but is that because after nearly twenty years of no new Heinleinania there was suddenly some that was reminiscent of his best stuff, or because it really deserves to be up there?
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