The three-legged alien takes the two boys and Willis to participate in a ritual called "growing together" with a group of its fellows. At a rest stop, Willis wanders off and encounters one of the adult sentient Martians.
Jim takes along his native Martian pet, Willis the Bouncer, a round furry ball the size of a volleyball, who is about as intelligent as a human child and has a photographic memory for sounds, which he can also reproduce perfectly. Colonial teenagers Jim Marlowe and Frank Sutton travel to the Lowell Academy boarding school for the start of the academic year. Mars has been colonized by humans, but is governed by an administrator appointed by an Earth-based company - the colonists have no political power. After Heinlein's death, the book was reissued by Del Rey Books as the author originally intended. The version published in 1949 featured a number of changes forced on Heinlein by Scribner's, since it was published as part of the Heinlein juveniles. It represents the first appearance of Heinlein's idealized Martian elder race (see also Stranger in a Strange Land). Heinlein about students at boarding school on the planet Mars. Red Planet is a 1949 science fiction novel by Robert A.
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