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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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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19. In RAH's Stranger we see conflicted attitudes towards Hubbard & his cult.
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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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21. But satire on religion as money making scheme in Stranger is also in part directed at Scientology.
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22. In 1963 while prisoner at US Penitentiary at McNeil Island, Charles Manson heard other prisoners talk about Heinlein & Hubbard
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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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24. Manson cult borrowed elements from both Heinlein & Hubbard (as well as other sources).
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25. In 1969 at Rio Film Festival, Heinlein meets Sharon Tate, who would later be killed by Manson's cult.
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26. In 1970, Heinlein starts getting a disturbing letter and phone call from woman who says cops are after her.
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27. That letter and call were probably from Lynette Fromme, member of Manson cult who later tried to kill President Gerald Ford.
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28. Aside from Manson cult, of course, Heinlein inspired many more benign New Age-y religions and social formations.
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29. Key to understanding all this is that for Heinlein science fiction was speculation: playing with ideas. Not so for Hubbard.
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