A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness (Robert Heinlein)

The New Republic ^ | June 8, 2014 | By JEET HEER

[Seruzawa]

Hey Jeet! Check out my tagline and then suck me.

[Wonder Warthog]

"The point though is not to mark the beginnings of sci fi but to identify Welles as a major influence on Heinlein."

No doubt. Fortunately, Heinlein threw off said influence and found his own voice. One thing that was pellucidly clear...Heinlein was an American patriot.

[Rockingham]

I recall reading an interview with Heinlein in the early 1980s that appeared in Human Events no less, an obscure small circulation conservative tabloid. And the conflict with the Bugs in Starship Troopers seemed to parallel our existential struggle with Communism.

[ConservativeMind]

Actually, his book “Friday” greatly speaks out against not accepting all persons. After all, Friday was a sort of genetically “fashioned” person who felt more solitary from her differences with everyone else.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

The bottom line of this article is that RAH isn’t as great as people think because he differed with Mr Heet’s politics.

[Wuli]

Heinlein’s novel Stranger in A Strange Land was my introduction to his writing. It - the book - was very “Libertarian” in the philosophy of its main character.

[zeugma]

As an adult, I came to realize that Heinlein was Godless as are most sci-fi writers....which ended my fascination of SF.

You might try some John Ringo if you think that all SF is Godless. Baen Publishing has a few of his on their Free Library. Try Gust Front, which is a free download in whatever ebook format you prefer.

[zeugma]

starting with the barely readable “For Us the Living”

Agreed. It was barely readable, which is why it was not published until after his death. One of the really interesting things about it, IMO was the number of things that got barely a mention in there, which was his first attempt at a novel that showed up in later stories. For instance, rolling roads were a passing mention in FUTL, but was later expanded upon. There were several others that I recall making note of when I read it, but they don't come to mind at the moment. (Getting old I am.)

[gunnyg]

Re GROK
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Re Wikipedia Stranger In A Strange Land...
To Understand INTUITIVELY...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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See Also: Wapnick: Strangers In A Strange World, Gro, the Course, Etc.!
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[MightyMama]

I love John C. Wright (most of the others too, but Wright’s a pretty recent discovery). I don’t know if you follow his blog, but after exhaustively dissecting “The Last Jedi” and what he didn’t like about it, he seems to be launching his own take on Star Wars. I very much enjoyed the preview I read of it.

[Ransomed]

Yeah, Wright’s blog is great. I’ve read the Golden Age series and the Count to Eschaton sequence of his, both tremendous. I read some of his take on the new Star Wars movie, pretty funny.

http://www.scifiwright.com/

Freegards

[tbw2]

You might appreciate a recent interview with the author of Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction.

An Interview with Author Andrew Fox
https://libertyislandmag.com/2020/11/07/an-interview-with-author-andrew-fox/

[tbw2]

You might appreciate a recent interview with the author of Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction.

An Interview with Author Andrew Fox
https://libertyislandmag.com/2020/11/07/an-interview-with-author-andrew-fox/

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Many writers have had nutty political views. Heinlein was comparatively normal.

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