1/ I loved loved loved SST first few times I read it, in my teens and early 20s. On later, re-readings I've still enjoyed it, but it's very clearly a didactic / lecturing novel aimed at youth, w typical Heinlein-author-confident-voice-in-mouths-of-heroes. Today I give the edgehttps://twitter.com/ShirePropaganda/status/1344314982406770689 …
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3/ strong agree. One thing I do love about Heinlein is that he, like Neal Stephenson, can experiment with ideas, push them whole-heartedly, and then pivot to some other idea later.https://twitter.com/ShirePropaganda/status/1344315752506159106 …
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4/ Since we're talking about Heinlein, I recommend The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein by Farah Mendlesohn. She's fairly left of center, in an SJW-ish way, and tries to contort Heinlein's positions to match w her own, but that defect aside, it's a great resource
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5/ https://www.amazon.com/Pleasant-Profession-Robert-Heinlein-ebook/dp/B07JPJNFR9 … Coincidentally, I'm reading another book right now that she edited The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literaturehttps://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Fantasy-Literature-Companions/dp/0521728738/ …
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6/ Many such cases (including John C Wright)https://twitter.com/MogTheUrbanite/status/1344317019588476929?s=19 …
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Haven't read that one, will pick up
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Forever War was amazing, and amazing over a span of decades.
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So long as it’s the extended edition ... ;)
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