Start a new thread. It has a lot of promise!
Books like Starship Troopers or Stranger In A Strange Land or Job are OK-ish because although they may be expressions of Heinlein's philosophy they don't have the same old perennial infuriating Author Avatar in there constantly preaching at us as to what we should think.
He expresses his viewpoint in most all of his books. In some books it is disguised better than others. This is what every novelist does.
Time Enough For Love is the very worst thing that he ever wrote, or if he ever wrote anything worse I am grateful not to have read it ... oh, wait ... he did write a novel that was even worse than that, but I've forgotten the title.
I Will Fear No Evil? No argument there if that's what you are thinking of.
Oh ... two novels worse than that. One of them was called Friday. I can't remember what the absolute worst one was called.
Friday was not among his best, agreed.
It is infuriating to me that someone with his gifts as a storyteller should so have squandered his talent. If I could do what he could do, I'd have done something else.
His juveniles, from the late 1940s though about 1960, inspired a whole generation of scientists, many of whom were instrumental in our space program. In that, he was more influential that any other writer of the time.
My very favorite of his books is Double Star, that's just wonderful escapist science fiction. He should have written more like that and rammed his worldview up his ass where it belongs.
Double Star was not up to his normal standards of the time (my opinion).
Again, start a new thread. This topic should have legs!
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