Even the best writers can't hit all three in the space of your average Golden Age novel length. I've read several of Heinlein's juveniles for the first time this year, _Red Planet_ _Tunnel in the Sky_, _Farmer in the Sky_ and _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_ and what struck me about all of them was how thin the plots and characters were. Not badly done, but only sketched out.
It's the same with whatever other Golden Age sf writer you care to name. They always stint on something.
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Even the best writers can't hit all three in the space of your average Golden Age novel length. I've read several of Heinlein's juveniles for the first time this year, _Red Planet_ _Tunnel in the Sky_, _Farmer in the Sky_ and _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_ and what struck me about all of them was how thin the plots and characters were. Not badly done, but only sketched out.
It's the same with whatever other Golden Age sf writer you care to name. They always stint on something.