Critical Opinion
The Washington Post and Denver Post favorably compared Buettner's debut novel, Orphanage, to Robert Heinlein's 1959 classic Starship Troopers, to which, the author has written, Orphanage is a deliberate literary homage to Robert Heinlein, and also to Joe Haldeman. Other critics have compared Buettner's books favorably to the work of "Golden Age" science fiction writers Poul Anderson, Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper, L. Sprague deCamp, to recent writers Joe Haldeman and John Scalzi, and to such diverse artists as Miguel de Cervantes, Monty Python and P.G. Wodehouse. Buettner was nominated for the Quill Award for Best New Writer in 2005.
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