[marktwain]

In my youth I read just about everything Heinlein wrote.... As an adult, I came to realize that Heinlein was Godless as are most sci-fi writers....which ended my fascination of SF.

Bingo.

Heinlein was a very talented writer.

He was simply wrong about a great many things.

The author of this piece catches a lot of things, and he is wrong about a lot of things.

Starship Troopers authoritarian? Far less than socialist regimes today.

I found the bit about Heinleins peculiar sex life to explain much of his stunted worldview on sex, and perhaps why he never had children.

[papertyger]

I found the bit about Heinleins peculiar sex life to explain much of his stunted worldview on sex

Imagine my surprise when I got old enough to figure out Heinlein’s “women” were actually men written as female characters.

I’ve long thought DS9’s Kira Nerys was crafted after the stereotypical “Heinlein woman.”