13. So how the hell did Heinlein end up writing Farnham's Freehold (1964) about future ruled by Black Muslim cannibals?
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14. One thing is that at least in intent (bu not in execution) Farnham's Freehold was meant to be anti-racist book, Swiftian in nature.
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15. Swiftian satire dangerous tool for so blunt a writer as Heinlein.
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16. If Heinlein wrote "A Modest Proposal" many of his readers would have started a baby-eating cult.
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17. More specifically, what subverts intent of Farnham's Freehold is Heinlein's lapsing into stereotypes he's not even conscious of.
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18. In Farnham's Freehold, it's not just the drug-dealing, castrating, white-women raping, black cannibals that's the problem.
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19. A huge problem in Farnham's Freehold is the supposed "good Negro" -- Farnham's houseboy Joe.
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20. Joe is a cipher designed to serve Heinlein's plot points. Initially helpful, sexless, deferential ("yes, boss") who turns traitor.
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21. The main white characters from the present are disgusted by future cannibal society but Joe takes to it like a duck in water. A problem
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22. There's a racial dimension to I Will Fear No Evil (1970) that isn't often considered.
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23. In I Will Fear No Evil a 94-year-old billionaire first has his brain implanted in the body of a 28-year-old black woman.
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24. Through sci-fi mumbo-jumbo the old white billionaire & young black woman end up sharing the body.
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25. What's interesting about "Fear No Evil" is the way it enacts Heinlein's desire to imaginatively inhabit black female body.
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