Posted on 12/01/2016 7:38:11 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
Loved the book. Great speech on how to organize a government. Wasn’t there a hint/suggestion that Mike was only “hidding”?
Also see "The Number Of The Beast"
That was a great read, back in the day.
Just read it again last month!.....................
Heinlein was a great writer. It is what made him so dangerous and loved by the left.
Unfortunately, he promoted a lot of really bad ideas and lies.
Loved that, way back when.
That was one of his weird ones..............had characters from his other books in it...............
Still is, if you discount the science that has been learned since then............
And for some strange reason he was constantly describing the bathrooms the characters used..in great detail...lol
Refreshers..................
Mike was destroyed when the attack on the Luna City communications network severed some of Mike’s neural net, just enough that he lost his consciousness, but still able to work as a computer...........
Another GREAT Jimmy Webb song that is made extraordinary by Linda Ronstadt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x3ajF-ZKYA
There is a rather sweet juvenile that I read in high school entitled Podkayne of Mars. In his posthumous Grumbles From The Grave he reveals the original ending. And why it couldn't be published, and why it ought to be.
Red Badger wrote: “Mike was destroyed when the attack on the Luna City communications network severed some of Mikes neural net, just enough that he lost his consciousness, but still able to work as a computer...........”
I remember that but I also remember Mannie would often wake up imagining that Mike was still conscious and would talk to him in his dreams. As I remember, Mannie wondered if this was just wishful thinking or if Mike was still conscious but afraid to allow anyone to know.
Mannie was just missing his friend Mike, like a normal grieving human being................
This is my all time favorite book...
Must have read it at least 10 - 12 times now.
TANSTAAFL! Great acronym.
Heinlein started out a Leftist. After marrying his wife Ginny, his politics definitely shifted Right. Most of his sci-fi books are infused with libertarian philosophy (TANSTAAFL) and the power of the individual.
I have read just about every Heinlein book I could find.
I used to be a big fan.
You are correct, he started as a leftist, essentially a “progressive”. Unfortunately, when you start drilling down, “progressive” ideas are bedrock to most of his books.
The libertarianism is just a thin veneer over the progressivism.
Great writer. Excellent talent. Unfortunately, used to destroy much of the bedrock of the West.
As an example. A bedrock principle of Heinlein writing is that all religions are equally believable. To Heinlein, no serious difference exists between Christians and Muslims. That is one of the reasons we are where we are at today with Muslim immigration in the U.S. and Europe.
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