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sweetloukillbot

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7. I loved Heinlein's YA books as a kid

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 10:51 PM

Dec 2014

I love Starship Troopers, Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land - I'd rank all three among the best sci-fi novels of all time. My favorite though, is Have Spacesuit Will Travel, it feels less marred by his ideology and philosophy.
Heinlein has a knack for sucking me into his stories to the point where I'm so wrapped up in them I almost miss the offensive messages. And I include Farnham's Freehold in that bunch. I enjoyed reading it and felt unclean afterwards.
I recently read The Door Into Summer which seemed pretty innocuous, then it ends with the main character courting a nine-year-old girl with the intention of marrying her when she is older.
I call it the Heinlein Ick Factor.

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Re: Robert Heinlein [View all] Wolf Frankula Dec 2014 OP

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