[jocon307]

“...liberals still worship the weird old guy..”

It seems a lot of conservatives like him too.

I tried “Stranger in a Strange Land” twice. Once in about 8th grade when the whole class was reading it as an assignment. A sufficient number of us hated it sufficiently so we voted to read another book. Interestingly I have no idea what that other book was but have never forgotten SIASL.

I tried it again years later, but just couldn’t, you know, grok it.

[doorgunner69]

I recently re-read "Glory Road" which is a rather atypical RAH book in many ways. Not so much SF and the hero refuses to screw around on his woman, which was A-OK with RAH in his books and real life.

I suspect the FReepers that like his later works are more of a libertarian bent than conservative, if not liberal sleepers, like one on this thread cheering his work.

When I read his stuff as a teenager, I just read for the SF. Later on, I noticed the free-sex and other creepy stuff threaded through. SIASL is a very creepy book.