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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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      12. After WWII, Hubbard started acting erratically. Heinlein blamed that on war trauma and started keeping distance.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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      13. Despite now being wary of Hubbard, Heinlein still respected him and thought him casualty of war deserving sympathy.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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      14. Dianetics emerged out the side of "hard" s.f. that was attracted to mystical solutions & pseudo-science.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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      15. No accident that earliest essay on Dianetics appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, with laudatory intro by editor John W. Campbell.

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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      16. For a while, Campbell became a major supporter of Dianetics, as did many other sf writers like Van Vogt, Katherine MacLean, James Blish

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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      17. Heinlein didn't fall into Dianetics craze, but because of his past ties to Hubbard was interested in the hubbub.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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      18. Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land (1961) is partially an attempt to re-write Hubbard's story as a science fiction novel.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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      19. In RAH's Stranger we see conflicted attitudes towards Hubbard & his cult.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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      20. Jubal Harshaw, polymatic pulp writer, is partly idealized view of Hubbard that Heinlein knew in 1940s.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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      21. But satire on religion as money making scheme in Stranger is also in part directed at Scientology.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014

      22. In 1963 while prisoner at US Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Charles Manson heard other prisoners talk about Heinlein & Hubbard

      1:15 PM - 25 Sep 2014
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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          23. Manson could barely read, but he was a quick study in conversation. In prison he picked up key ideas of both Stranger & Dianetics.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2014
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          24. Manson cult borrowed elements from both Heinlein & Hubbard (as well as other sources).

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