There hasn’t been any new news since around May. But that hasn’t stopped Imdb from churning out “articles” that are merely copy-and-pastes from many months old info like the article I posted.
There hasn’t been any new news since around May. But that hasn’t stopped Imdb from churning out “articles” that are merely copy-and-pastes from many months old info like the article I posted.
i think the only thing i’ve read by him was stranger in a strange land and that starts off ok, though the libertarian stuff is stupid. and then as i remember, like halfway through the book it just suddenly jumps all the sharks and turns into a super weird sex cult jesus thing.
the mind boggles.
Yeah Heinlein was weird. His beliefs were extremely incoherent and changed drastically over his life, with the only real constant being a fundamentally right wing slant and him being a giant nerd who liked to speculate about sci fi shit a lot.
I still find it difficult to be too hard on him, though. He wrote once about how writing was a compulsive need, something he had to do or he’d get “physically ill”, which kind of lines up with how every book without fail reached a point where you can see he stopped giving a shit about that story and just wanted to wrap it up to start something else. Also kind of lines up with the “Heinlein was an egg” theory. He was also less weird about female characters than most of his contemporaries, which is also strange given his politics. Another strange thing, given his politics, is that he learned Russian and visited the Soviet Union as a tourist with his wife. And when Philip K Dick was dying Heinlein apparently gave his family some large sum of money unprompted to help them out.