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    1. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 31 Dec 2019

      What’s clear about Foundation is what interests Asimov is political maneuvering, and psychohistory is an excuse to string together some stories about it. And Young Isaac thought of politics as a thing guys did. It was a failure of imagination to assume it would always be so.

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    2. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 31 Dec 2019

      The political maneuvering *is* pretty fun, for the most part. And the nominally male characters are so disconnected from sexuality for the most part, you could even do "reverse Ann Leckie" headcanon and just assume Empire and Foundation construe gender differently.

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    3. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 31 Dec 2019

      Like, maybe "males" are *people who do politics* regardless of phenotype. Who knows? Or treat Foundation as a representational triumph for asexual/aromantic people! (Like, only one named character, an antagonist, has a mentioned spouse.)

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    4. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 31 Dec 2019

      Regardless, while the book's silly gender demographics are saved for me by the *overall* absence of a deeply imagined future, I could easily see other readers finding it too ridiculous to bother with.

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    5. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 31 Dec 2019

      Foundation, by Isaac Asimov, a summary: In the grim future there is only war. There are certainly not women, or Deuterium.

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    6. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 1 Jan 2020

      Wow, this thread blew up in a very minor way. Check out my actual SoundCloud, including this very Finnish number @pnh and I wrote:https://soundcloud.com/jim-henley/humans …

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    7. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 1 Jan 2020

      Woke Mind Bacterium Retweeted Dr. Funkenstein, PhD

      Well, Heinlein even more than Asimov was, despite his reputation, a determined writer of **whispers** *social science-fiction*. https://twitter.com/poliscifiblog/status/1212441618739056640?s=21 …https://twitter.com/PoliSciFiBlog/status/1212441618739056640 …

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      Dr. Funkenstein, PhD @PoliSciFiBlog
      Replying to @peter_donnelly @UojiM
      I think the OP makes a good point: it lacks imagination. It’s a good set of stories (and it’s redeemed rather than ruined by its sequels) but even Heinlein shows more commitment to the idea that society and social relations change.
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    8. P Nielsen Hayden‏Verified account @pnh 2 Jan 2020
      Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @UojiM

      I’m not sure that Heinlein would have disagreed. The term “hard SF” predates his death by a good bit, but the peak humbug about it being The Only Intellectually Respectable SF mostly comes afterward.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jan 2020
      Replying to @pnh @UojiM

      The interesting thing about Heinlein is post-Sputnik he mostly ignored "hard s.f." (the big exceptions being Moon is a Harsh Mistress & Friday) & wrote mostly a mixture of fantasy, satire & wish fulfillment.

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    10. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 2 Jan 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @pnh

      Outside the juvies and some of the short fiction, and the two novels you mention, I’m not sure Heinlein ever wrote much "hard SF" as such.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Jan 2020
      Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @UojiM @pnh

      Well, the juvies were his main production for a decade & one of the main pillars of his reputation.

      7:48 AM - 2 Jan 2020
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        1. Bruce R‏ @Flit_BruceR 2 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @UojiM @pnh

          If we're going with "hard SF" as "obeys physical laws, or explains why not," calling them juvies isn't totally fair. "Rocketship Galileo" sticks to the real science of moon travel surprisingly well. "Waldo" also impresses in that regard. If we mean "mature themes," well, okay.

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