Robert A. Heinlein's Legacy

The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 26, 2007 | Taylor Dinerman

[B-Chan]

...As Arthur C. Clarke put it: "Almost every good scientist I know has read science fiction." And the greatest writer who produced them was Robert Anson Heinlein, born in Butler, Mo., 100 years ago this month.

The list of technologies, concepts and events that he anticipated in his fiction is long and varied...

[higgmeister]

I thought you’d be interested (obviously?)

[higgmeister]

I agree all of them; even "Time Enough for Love", "SIASL" and especially "TMIAHM" . I also liked "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" , "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" and Take Back Your Government!

I even bought my copy of "To sail Beyond the Sunset" in the Bookstore that was in the same area where Doc Pemberton's first glass of Coca-Cola was served at Jacob's Pharmacy, at the corner of Marietta and Peachtree Streets in May of 1886.

[TXnMA]

Wrong author. That was from Frank Herbert’s “Dune” books...

[Titan Magroyne]

Odd how his biggest defender is ultra-liberal Spider RObinson. I believe he reworked a Heinlein novel published this year, which includes an explicit anti-WOT paragraph.
Yeah, that just slayed me. Robinson took the skeleton of an unpublished Heinlein novel and warped it into someting I didn't recognise. In his lifetime Heinlein freely criticized bloated government meddling yet maintained faith with his country and civilization. (I didn't much care for the naughty language either, which RAH always managed to communicate without actually writing.)

I reckon Spider fans were happy enough, but this RAH fan was left disappointed with what I suppose was mistaken glee for "a new book by" Robert A. Heinlein.

[SauronOfMordor]

It would have been neat if my high school had possessed an armory like Patrick Henry High did in Tunnel In The Sky...

My high school did, including a belt-fed, tripod mounted machinegun. Plus a rifle range in the basement. Then again we had a Junior ROTC program

[SauronOfMordor]

Freehold is chilling in today’s Islamic light.

For many years it was out of print as too politically incorrect (in a post-nuke-war world, the Africans have taken over since they were not hit by the war, and they are far worse than any white Southern slaveholders ever were).

It's in print now