Heinlein's brilliance was

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podrock — 9/1/2023 2:03:01 AM (archived)

that he quickly learned who his audience was. As you say: the juvenal male. As he aged, and so did his acquired audience, he moved from the juvenal Sci Fi to more adult fiction, but that horney, hero worshiping adolescent never really left his prose. His last novel, "Friday", has some truly cringe worthy passages.

Pretty much a dirty old paranoid man.

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He's been reading his Heinlein... - ER - 8/31/2023 12:20:19 AM
- Starship Troopers? - RobVG - 8/31/2023 8:04:38 PM
  - The movie explains that point in simplistic terms - BuckGalaxy - 9/1/2023 12:13:58 AM
    - In the novel, the bugs are communists. - ER - 9/1/2023 1:29:53 AM
      - In what other books does he out himself as a fascist? - RobVG - 9/1/2023 10:38:28 PM
        
        Thanks for the insights and recommendations n/t. - RobVG - 9/2/2023 7:08:27 PM
        
        I only remember Harsh Mistress vaguely. - ER - 9/2/2023 3:44:06 AM
        
        I don't consider Heinlein a fascist. - podrock - 9/2/2023 1:59:32 AM
      - And yet, in the same books, - podrock - 9/1/2023 1:42:11 AM
        
        Heinlein's brilliance was - podrock - 9/1/2023 2:03:01 AM
    - As I recall - podrock - 9/1/2023 12:56:52 AM

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