[Tublecane]

Oh, and Asimov, who knew him, called him a ‘flaming liberal’ at the time. That one always cracks me up.”

Maybe he skipped “Starship Troopers” and “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress,” only catching “Stranger In A Strange Land,” which probably could have been written by a hippie (without being a satire).

[Billthedrill]

Asimov had his moments too, but Heinlein actually was very Left in his early days in a populist sort of way. He grew up - a lot of Lefties do - when he discovered that his principles and The Party went in opposite directions.

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress was, at least in my opinion, his version of the American War of Independence and Heinlein's greatest novel. AI in 1965 was pretty forward-looking, but when the girls died in the fighting at the ramp it was pretty obvious he was talking about something else entirely. That was his version of patriotism, the real one.

[knittnmom]

I’ve read so many of Heinlein’s quotes on FR that I decided to read some of his books. I started with “Stranger in a Strange Land”, the uncut version. Based on your post, maybe I should have started with something else. The other one I have is “JOB: A Comedy of Justice”. Maybe I will give that a go later this month. After “Stranger”, I was not going to read anymore of his books because of the “hippie” factor.