Yet another Heinlein reference - Page 2

Pie · 09-15-2005, 01:47 PM

TMIaHM is my definite favorite -- my husband and I registered LuNoHoCo.com for our server at home. Our public website is TychoUnder.com .

I also love the whole Future History series, but I need to give a plug for Farnham's Freehold, probably one of his most underrated books.

- Pie, wants to be Sharpie...

kelliekd · 09-16-2005, 07:01 AM

I love his books, but haven't gotten through half of them yet. Podikane of Mars was the greatest book to read first. It shocks me that not many people my age have read them. Amazing work that I thought nobody else knew about.

Iggy · 09-19-2005, 11:09 PM

The only one I read was Stranger in a Strange Land.... but I loved it. I will definitly have to read the others.

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-23-2005, 08:53 PM

I think I've read about all of them, juvie and adult. Starship Troopers I found seminal -- it has had a huge influence on my philosophy of life to this day, forty years and more later. Time Enough For Love I think was his masterwork. Do also check out the retrospective Grumbles From the Grave if you can find it -- Heinlein and other ess-eff pros talking about Heinlein. Spider Robinson's essay is particularly interesting; he says Heinlein tended to start him awake late at night, thinking on things RAH said or wrote. Ably rebuts the notion (a very mistaken one) that Heinlein was some kind of fascist, which was something Paul Verhoeven simply never understood in his moviemaking. Starship Troopers must have an American director. Europeans aren't going to grok ST in its fullness; it is a very American sort of story. Heinlein's thinking is very libertarian -- check his views on ID cards, to let one example stand for many.

09-15-2005, 01:47 PM	#1
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	TMIaHM is my definite favorite -- my husband and I registered LuNoHoCo.com for our server at home. Our public website is TychoUnder.com . I also love the whole Future History series, but I need to give a plug for Farnham's Freehold, probably one of his most underrated books. - Pie, wants to be Sharpie... __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

09-23-2005, 08:53 PM	#4
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	I think I've read about all of them, juvie and adult. Starship Troopers I found seminal -- it has had a huge influence on my philosophy of life to this day, forty years and more later. Time Enough For Love I think was his masterwork. Do also check out the retrospective Grumbles From the Grave if you can find it -- Heinlein and other ess-eff pros talking about Heinlein. Spider Robinson's essay is particularly interesting; he says Heinlein tended to start him awake late at night, thinking on things RAH said or wrote. Ably rebuts the notion (a very mistaken one) that Heinlein was some kind of fascist, which was something Paul Verhoeven simply never understood in his moviemaking. Starship Troopers must have an American director. Europeans aren't going to grok ST in its fullness; it is a very American sort of story. Heinlein's thinking is very libertarian -- check his views on ID cards, to let one example stand for many. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 09-23-2005 at 09:00 PM.

09-16-2005, 07:01 AM	#2
kelliekd Internet window-shopper Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Ga Posts: 37	I love his books, but haven't gotten through half of them yet. Podikane of Mars was the greatest book to read first. It shocks me that not many people my age have read them. Amazing work that I thought nobody else knew about.

09-19-2005, 11:09 PM	#3
Iggy Back and ready to tart up the place Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kansas Posts: 850	The only one I read was Stranger in a Strange Land.... but I loved it. I will definitly have to read the others.

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