[redrock]

I carried with me thru 2 tours in Vietnam a paperback copy of "Starship Troopers"

I still have it......

redrock

[Tijeras_Slim]

Bookmarked this one from the last time it was posted.
Never had a Heinlein book I didn't wear out.

[semaj]

As a youth I read Number of the Beast and Stranger in a Strange Land, both had quite an impact on my thinking. Heinlein was and will always be one of my favorite authors.

I thought Star Ship Troopers was penned by L. Ron Hubbard?

[stylin_geek]

Robert A. Heinlein was one of several excellent SF writers who came along at the same time. Philip K. Dick, James Blish, Gordon R. Dickson, Alfred Bester, Arthur C. Clarke, and Isaac Asimov are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

[Drumbo]

Thanks for a Heinlein topic!

A few misconceptions here imho though; Stranger In A Strange Land, was a masterpiece of satire. If taken seriously (as many liberals do) it's no wonder some didn't like it.

"Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw, Stranger In A Strange Land, (Robert A. Heinlein)

Heinlein an atheist? . . . the careful reader will see a sophist.

"The only religious opinion that I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together." - Jubal Harshaw, Stranger In A Strange Land, (Robert A. Heinlein, emphisis mine)

Some other favorites of mine not already posted here:

"An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted." - Her Wisdom Star, Glory Road, (Robert A. Heinlein)

"Major Ian Hay, back in the "War to End War," described the structure of military organizations: Regardless of the T.O., all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother Department." - Oscar "E.C." Gordon, Glory Road, (Robert A. Heinlein)

"A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice." - Colonel [Pop] Baslim, Citizen Of The Galaxy, (Robert A. Heinlein)

"Success lies in achieving the top of the food chain." - Jubal Harshaw, Stranger In A Strange Land, (Robert A. Heinlein)

"Don't try to have the last word, you may get it." - Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love, (Robert A. Heinlein)

[GOPJ]

I was rereading Van Vogt's "Weapon Shops of Isher" the other day when it occurred that modern books are edited and published almost exclusively by liberals. Conservative values are nonexistent in modern literature

Conservative books when they're published, make the NY Times top ten list. Wouldn't conservative type fiction also top the list? I'm ready to buy. I'll buy the book, I'll watch the movie. Any publishers out there with the courage to hire a conservative editor to find fiction for over half the population (many liberals are hardly literate)

I loved Starship Troopers and felt that the movie did the novel a great disservice. Instead of treating the ideas of the novel seriously (whatever you think of them, good or ill), the movie simply mocked the ideas and turned itself into a mindless, meaningless space opera. It couldn't even get the space opera element right, as it ignored two of the coolest elements of the book: the tactical nukes and the powered armor. d the novel a great disservice. Instead of treating the ideas of the novel seriously (whatever you think of them, good or ill), the movie simply mocked the ideas and turned itself into a mindless, meaningless space opera. It couldn't even get the space opera element right, as it ignored two of the coolest elements of the book: the tactical nukes and the powered armor.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Pinging some folks who might enjoy the read....

[bert]

I have a reading list for teens that begins with "Stranger In A Strange land" By Robert Heinlein and "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.

Both of these works present alternate thinking on the questions that torment Humanity.

Like the author of this essay, I to am very indebted to Heinlein for life's guidelines. There are many on Free Republic who really need a big dose of his ideas.

I guess my favorite is Job. I learned there to deal without certainty and that I need a trade. That is, something I like to do and can do well, in addition to my chosen vocation. RH recommended dishwasher as an honest trade and one always in demand.

For those of you hideabound FReepers reading this thread..... sample something the man wrote. Then try not to read more from his long list of books.

He was a fantastic American author. I hope this thread goes to 10,000

[VOA]

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[GOPJ]

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[FreeLibertarian]

Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing---with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place. -- Lazarus Long

[joebuck]

From the peanut gallery, count this as one more vote for "Time enough for Love" as the best Heinlien novel. It was the first Heinlein novel I read. I loved it so much I immediatly read every thing else he had ever written. All of his stuff is great but TEFL is still my favorite. It easily has the most thought provoking ending of them all.

[FreeLibertarian]

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. -- Lazarus Long

[dcwusmc]

Marvelous post. Heinlein was the best, bar none. El Neil is excellent in his own right and refreshing to read!

[FreeLibertarian]

One more for today;

God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent---it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills. -- Lazarus Long

[FreeLibertarian]

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier. -- Lazarus Long

[FreeLibertarian]

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excssive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into the machinery that does not work too well at best.

Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love....The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

[bert]

My son ran off with most of my Heinlein books and my urge to reread generated by the recent thread sent me to the library where to my dismay most of his books were gone....to another library.

I went to the store and bought "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" and am reading it now.

What a great treat this is...... Free Republic and Robert Heinlein.

[Vaquero]

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[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I haven't read all of Heinlein's work, but my two favorites would have to be "Starship Troopers" and "Job" which is one of the most ironic and funny things I've ever read.

[TXFireman]

bttt to read later