Imagine thinking this is true at ALL of current sff writers. (Just as one trivial example, Hugo finalist LIGHT BRIGADE by Kameron Hurley is very much in conversation with both STARSHIP TROOPERS and FOREVER WAR.) https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1289983961406423040 …
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Also, Mendelsohn is very smart but she's not God. I haven't read her Heinlein book yet. I have read Alexei Panshin's brilliant HEINLEIN IN DIMENSION, which points out a great deal of weakness in Heinlein's craft even back when he was contemporary. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1290748415807193094 …
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Really, the vast majority of Heinlein is only worth reading for historical interest anymore (and i've read a great deal of it). The field has MOVED ON. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1290748415807193094 …
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAH 'strong female characters', 'good moral lessons' this explains SO MUCH abt you & your writing. Heinlein's female characters are mostly written as hypercompetent fuckbunnies w/baby-rabies. They're male-gaze fantasies, not actually "strong". https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1290752439310848001 …
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God, it never takes more than a few tweets before they show their true colors, does it? https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1290753767227490304 …
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And then this guy comes in with more misogyny. I'm not "scolding" anyone, and i'm not a "puritan". I'm pointing out the fact that Heinlein's "strong female characters" were written as Playboy bunnies with math degrees. https://twitter.com/bhg70/status/1290754444829876224 …
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Also, if you want to know who these people really are, take a look at who's Liking their tweets. Open white supremacists, people quote-tweeting Nick Land, "actually it's ephebophilia" folks, etc. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1290753767227490304 …
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Dude, i assure you that i am both competent at things and like sex. I'd just never fuck someone like you, and that's why i'm not a Heinlein fantasy character. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1290755966695362560 …
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Oh dude, i promise that your writing is not "actually pretty good". https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1290758261549998080 … I'm still just in the Kindle Look Inside sample, but here's more bad prose (with bonus rapey bullshit!)pic.twitter.com/eGg7a6Wzbk
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