A Political History of SF

[Dave Monroe]

--- David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:

> Regarding Heinlein: I wallowed in Heinlein's works
> from grade school right up into late adolescence,
 climaxing with Stranger In a Strange Land, which
> my pals and I imagined we were living out. Oy veh. 
> Years later, I tried reading Heinlein's juvenile
> novels to my kid, who loves sci-fi, but found
> them embarrassing in exactly the same measure as
> they were brilliant.

I've never been much of a Heinlein fan (I grew up on
Herbert, Clarke, Asimov, Lem, Niven, Ellison ...), but
I reread in teh past year or so both Starship Troopers
and Starner ina  Strange Land (the expanded ed., this
time).   The former I think still holds up, despite my
ideological queasiness about it, but I've even less
tolerance for SIASL now.  The (not-so-)cryptofascist
underbelly of hippiedom, apparently.  But I still
recall fondly Heinlein's The Rolling Stones ...


 
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