This interview will be of interest to various Heinlein readers. @effjayem @john_clute @pnhhttps://twitter.com/ohtiniestplanet/status/1358935347095347200 …
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Wow, I read Russ' "The Female Man" when I was in college and it had a profound effect on me. Haven't thought of it in sooo long.
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Heinlein was far more influential in my more conservative-leaning youth than Ayn Rand ever could have been. The right should really trade out their Rand-shilling for Heinlein-shilling. At least the writing is good.
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In this interview, Chandler Davis - who was himself very left-wing - points out that many of the socialist ideas in the Astounding Magazine in the 1940s and 50s were (paradoxically) found in Heinlein's stories: https://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/chandler-davis/ParadoxaInterview.html …
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Yeah, Heinlein was a socialist in the 1930s and only slowly and partly shifted to the right in late 1940s and 1950s. Very complicated writer and thinker.
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Sometimes I think a lot about how much midcentury sci-fi considered trans issues something of a philosophically solved issue, like everyone agreed more or less what The Future would think about it (some post-apocalypses excepted), regardless of what present society did.
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Erm, just to show how openminded Mr. Heinlein could be, I'll just leave this here.
(AFAICT, btw, not the inspiration for the Hooters tuneage of the same name...
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He also came across as an utter misogynist freak in books like The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (etc). I mean, yikes - talk about cringe.
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? That would be the one in which the female character takes the lead? I dislike the book but I don’t see what you are describing.
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There's some good stuff about that in
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I was going to say! I wrote it! But I wish I’d had this interview. Thank you for brining it to my attention.
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