History Literature / TheRollingStones1952

* ComedicSociopathy: Played with when Buster is suffering from severe space sickness. The twins note that it would be better if the ''Stone'' (illegally) corrects their orbit to return to Luna, noting that if their brother died "It would spoil the whole trip."

* SettingUpdate: Invoked in-universe when Roger Stone accuses his mother of using recycled plots. She cheerful admits it and states that in the next episode, "I'm going to equip ''Hamlet'' with atomic propulsion."

* CliffhangerCopout: Appears in-universe in a StoryWithinAStory,''The Scourge of the Spaceways''. John Sterling ends one season in an unsurvivable DeathTrap. He starts the next season out of the DeathTrap and, hero that he is, is too modest to tell people how he managed to escape. Then the next adventure starts.

* KillEmAll: Hazel's solution for freeing Roger from his scripting contract. It doesn't take...

[[NamesTheSame Has nothing to do with]] [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand other types]] [[Magazine/RollingStone of rolling stones.]]

--> '''Hazel''': Mine do.

[[NamesTheSame Has nothing to do with]] [[Music/TheRollingStones other types]] [[Magazine/RollingStone of rolling stones.]]

* MarketBasedTitle: After [[Music/TheRollingStones the rock band]] hit the big time, later UK editions were retitled ''Space Family Stone''.

* AdultFear: Quite a bit for poor Roger, as the head of a family travelling out to the frontiers of the Solar System.

* TheAdventureContinues: After travelling to Mars, and eventually the Asteroid Belt, the family shrug and keep on Rolling.

%% TwinBanter: Cas and Pol are masters of this.

A well-loved YA novel written by Creator/RobertAHeinlein and published in 1952, ''The Rolling Stones'' follows the adventures of the Stone family, primarily through the viewpoint of fifteen year old red-headed troublemakers Castor and Pollux. Together they finagle their father, beleaguered script writer Roger Stone, into purchasing a space ship for a family outing through the solar system. HilarityEnsues.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* CreatorBacklash: In universe for poor heroic John Sterling, star of ''The Scourge of the Spaceways.''

--> '''Edith Stone''': I’m a doctor, not a fortune-teller.

* ManChild: Roger has shades of this, mostly related to the ''War God'' incident, fighting temptation to lie to Edith to keep her from going to the plague infested ship, and most egregiously when he condemns the ''War God's'' passengers to several more weeks of quarantine after they land, because he just ''had'' go aboard to see her after their extended separation.

* SettingUpdate: Invoked in universe when Roger Stone accuses his mother of using recycled plots. She cheerful admits it and states that in the next episode, "I'm going to equip ''Hamlet'' with atomic propulsion."

* TakeThat: You have to wonder if some of Roger Stone's rantings about his much hated science-fiction show contract had anything to do with Heinlein's experiences working on ''Film/DestinationMoon'', or ''Series/TomCorbettSpaceCadet''.

* TakeThat: You have to wonder if some of Roger Stone's rantings about his much hated science-fiction show contract had anything to do with Heinlein's experiences working on ''Film/DestinationMoon'', or ''TomCorbettSpaceCadet''.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Martian flat cats, which may have inspired Tribbles.

'''Note''': The YMMV tab goes to the band, not the book.

* YesMan: 50% of Edith Stone's dialog consists of "Yes, dear" in response to Roger Stone's rantings. When she does speak up it's [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness serious business]]

* TwinBanter: Cas and Pol are masters of this.

* ManChild: Roger has shades of this, mostly related to the ''War God'' incident, fighting temptation to lie to Edith to keep from going to the plague infested ship, most egregiously when he condemns the ''War God's'' passengers to several more week of quarantine after they land, because he just ''had'' go aboard to see her after their extended separation.

* ShownTheirWork: In the book ''Literature/ExpandedUniverse'', Mr. Heinlein explain how Mrs. Heinlein and he spent many hours calculating the precise orbit of the spaceship when it departs Luna and slingshots around Earth toward Mars. They had to do it with paper and pen, because in the early 1950s there was no other way and he wanted it to be correct.

* CrypticBackgroundReference: Hazel Stone meets recognizes someone from decades back involved in the Lunar revolution. Heinlein's novel ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' later features Hazel as a young girl in the revolution.

* RedHeadedHero: The twins.

* MoneyDearBoy: The reason Hazel ends up continuing the serial anyway. It does help pay for the ''Stone's'' modifications, admittedly.

* MyBelovedSmother: Roger gets constant flack from Hazel who insults him calls him a sissy when he refuses to rise to the bait.