Robert Heinlein at 100

http://www.reason.com/news/printer/120766.html ^

[tpaine]

" -- How should you live as you grow into a culture you did not make?

-- As a the unique individual who decides that things do not have to be, and won't continue, as they are.

That iconoclastic vision is at the heart of Heinlein, science fiction, libertarianism, and America. --"

[ontap]

Ideologies aside, Great author!

[Fzob]

BFL

[vladimir998]

Anyone into Heinlein might want to check out the two or three of his novels made into audio plays (for lack of a better word) by Full Cast Audio Family. Excellent!

http://www.fullcastaudio.com/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jnqmkme8

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[Professional Engineer]

bttt

[Yardstick]

*Bump*

[AntiKev]

My favourite Heinlein quote of all time:

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
- Lazarus Long, in Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

It describes my worldview to a tee.

[chasio649]

I follow the old saying “I don’t want to be a memeber of a club that would actually accept me”

;)

[Pablo64]

Hands down, my favorite SciFi author. About the only book of his that I was somewhat disappointed with was The Number of the Beast. I felt kind of let down towards the end the first couple of times I read it. I felt like Heinlein was just giving up on a great plot line and making a joke of it all.

I re-read it again after a couple of years wait, and got a different take on it. I'm still not as thrilled with it as some of his other works, but I think I finally got what he was saying and I enjoy it now when I re-read it. As I said, I am a huge fan (I am probably 3/4 of the way to completing my collection of all of his stories).

[NonValueAdded]

interesting

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Interesting.

[Professional Engineer]

Thanks for the link.

I just read “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” this week. I had somehow never read it before.

“Rolling Stones” was a fun read.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Long live Heinlein! “Orphans of the Sky” is one of my alltime favorite books, but I can’t find it anywhere now. I want my son to read it.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

By His Bootstraps

Amazing!

[MarkL]

I felt kind of let down towards the end the first couple of times I read it. I felt like Heinlein was just giving up on a great plot line and making a joke of it all.

Same here at first, however I really liked putting Harlan (Ellison, I assume) in charge of the critics! That was a stroke of genius!

Mark

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[CPOSharky]

At one time I had all his stories and loved every one.

So far I have not yet planed an invasion, set a bone, or died.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

http://www.timetravelreviews.com/shorts/heinlein_bootstraps.html