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To: Steely Tom

Great precis of RAH's work.

"Pang?" inquired Buck.


48 posted on 10/31/2004 9:51:51 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: bootless
Great precis of RAH's work.

I assume you mean this thread, and not my silly post, in which I can't get the Great Man's initials right.

Best to you,

(steely)

50 posted on 10/31/2004 9:57:40 PM PST by Steely Tom (Fortunately, fhe Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
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To: bootless
How many of you are aware that there is a NEW Robert Heinlein novel out? Heinlein's long lost first novel was discovered in the attic of a house that Heinlein once occupied. With the permission of Virginia Heinlein it was published just shortly after she passed away.

"For Us the Living" was written before he wrote "Life Line" and shows some hints of the themes he would expound on much later in his career... including some of the characters such as Nehemiah Scudder. The book shows many flaws as a first novel usually does, especially one that did not have the benefit of a good editor, but it is vintage Heinlein and well worth the read.

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Heinlein fans can rejoice-the SF master's lost first novel, composed between 1938 and 1939, has been found! In 1939, Perry Nelson suffers a bad car accident, but when he wakes up, it's 2086. A beautiful girl, Diana, takes the confused man under her wing, and naturally, they fall in love, but when Diana's ex shows up and flirts with her, Perry hauls off and hits him. Next thing Perry knows, he's being deprogrammed to get rid of his irrational sexual possession and jealousy. As Perry learns about the new world around him, he receives lectures about economic systems, aircars, rockets, U.S. history, religion and more-and these, of course, are the point of the story. Heinlein creates a utopian world of unparalleled prosperity and personal freedom and sketches out, through Perry's teachers, exactly why it all works. Since Heinlein mined ideas from this novel for all his other works, much is familiar, from the frankly free sexual mores to the active role of women to the rolling roads. Although this book can't stand alone on its own merits as a novel, it's a harbinger of later themes, best read critically and in conjunction with Heinlein's more mature fiction.
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59 posted on 10/31/2004 10:14:08 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tagline shut down for renovations and repairs. Re-open June of 2001.)
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