[Nip]

RAH had a very interesting career after he was medically discharged for TB. Think he was part owner of a silver mine (didn't produce enough to live off) and during WW2 he was recruited to “think outside the box” for the navy.

My bottom line has been and probably will remain “Starship Troopers”. read it in the early 1960’s as “space rangers against the galaxy” and thoroughly enjoyed it. Read it less than a decade later as a political science text and wondered “Why not?” Went back to the same book 30 years later as a conceptual framework for USAF manning in 2030.

Same book.

Very interesting.

BTW the ultimate RAH book is “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long” - one of his quotes appeared on my retirement shadow box; “You can have peace or freedom. Don't ever expect both.”

[Billthedrill]

Re your tagline - TANSTAAFL was another great thing out of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. It's hard to overemphasize how ground-breaking that novel really was.