A data point: Farah Mendelsohn, who many of your friends would certainly call SJW, is writing a fully crowdfunded nonfiction on Heinlein's work, which is critical but not a hit job if her research tweets of rereading all the books are an indicator.
I'm a huge RAH fan - have the Virginia Integral Edition. But, with the distance of a few decades, I can acknowledge that he had a BUNCH of clunkers. Almost everything after Orphans of the Sky (except Moon is a Harsh Mistress) is mediocre at best.
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When you write like a machine like he did, and specifically to maximize profit, there are going to be clunkers in the mix. His prose is workmanlike in general, but he had good enough ideas to make that work. And MOON is brilliant, and more subversive than credited as.
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In 1966 it's pretty telling to have your brown narrator locked up for miscegenation & portray the judge as a bigot, with Loving v. VA not yet decided.
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