Reception
Groff Conklin found the novel to be "a richly textured and thoroughly mature tale." Boucher and McComas praised it for its "good character-development, rousing adventure-telling, and brilliant creation of several forms of extra-Terrestrial life." P. Schuyler Miller ranked it "close to the the best in mainline science fiction."
New York Times reviewer Villiers Gerson declared Starman Jones to be "superior science-fiction. . . . carefully plotted, lucidly and beautifully written."
Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, Jack Williamson described Starman Jones as "a classic example of the bildungsroman pattern" and noted that "with its bold symbolism, the book makes a universal appeal." Despite "unlike coincidence and occasional melodrama" in the plotting, Williamson concluded that "the novel is a fine juvenile reflects hopes and fears we all have known."
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