[allmendream]

Well Heinlein is a tough nut to crack (and a bit of a perv)if one takes his writing as a personal statement of belief. But Starship Troopers stands alone as a testament that the old virtues are preserved for a reason and discarded at societies peril.

[Borges]

I waded through ‘Time Enough for Love’ and ‘The Cat...something or other’ decades ago and was blurry eyed afterwards. His late novels are filled with speechifying by what sure seem like an authorial stand ins.