I'm not familiar with that one. Heinlein was way ahead of his time if you ask me. I didn't much care for "Stranger In A Strange Land" but that's the one that really put him 'on the map' so to speak.
Try "Grumbles From The Grave" or "Farnhams Freehold" for some pretty good reads. "Time Enough For Love" is a classic of the genre if you ask me. Also "Puppet Masters" was truly scary.
"Starship Troopers" is a much better book than that cheesy movie they made of it, although I do enjoy the movie I must admit.
Heinlein tossed in a very 'conservative' political philosophy without getting preachy IMO.
Thanks for the thread. I'm always looking for good books to read. Once I finish the pile of non-fictions stuff I'm working on it'll be back to some lighther fare.
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He had William Proxmire, of all people, getting federal funding for a time machine. Proxmire used his clout to get it built then used it to go back in time to the ship RAH was serving on as a young naval officer before he got sick (TB?) and he injected him with a vaccine to prvent his illness. The fictional Proxmire's reasoning was that if RAH never got sick and left the navy he wouldn't write those nasty SF books and no one would be inspired to do things like go to the Moon. He comes back to a changed world to find Admiral Henilein head of the US Space Command and colonies on Mars.
Lovely little story.
Swwet. I hadn't found an image online before.
It was published well over a decade before he died.