7. Only Robert Heinlein would be crazy enough to write an anit-Nazi novel that also advocates Eugenics & Social Credit.
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8. Or consider "Farnham's Freehold" (1964) a novel with ostensibly anti-racist agenda which is hard not to read as racist.
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9. Plot of "Farnham's Freehold" includes a future America controlled by slave-owing black cannibals.That's Heinlein's case for Civil Rights!
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10. "Friday" was Heinlein's would-be feminist novel. Opens with heroine getting raped and making a quip about it ("might as well lie back")
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11. Heinlein's intent with "Friday" seems to be to answer his feminist critics (he dedicates book to host of female science fiction writers)
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12. Yet as with "Farnham's Freehold," -- some perversity in Heinlein led him to write female-centric novel that hits all the wrong buttons.
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14. One (perhaps too charitable) way to read these Heinlein books is that he had some satiric intent but lost control of the material.
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15. More broadly, Heinlein's problem was that he was sometimes Swiftian & sometimes Shavian (i.e characters as mouthpieces for ideas).
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16. Gay between Heinlein's intent and his effect often comes from fact that it's hard to know when he's being serious, when pulling our leg
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17. Heinlein's general tone of hearty jocularity (mixed with travelling sales man jokiness) contributes to problem of reading his intent.
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