I’m not sure if Heinlein genuinely thought it would be rad. He did play around with a lot of ideas in his books. Stranger in a Strange Land is totally different and full on hippie communism or whatever you’d call it, which is in a bit of a contrast to Starship Troopers. And then there’s the Finnish matriarchy in one of the books. Of course another explanation was that he just radically changed his minds but I dunno.
Interesting stuff, nevertheless and IMO really good book if you like military scifi.
If you read his books in the order they were written, you can watch him transition from liberal socialist to authoritarian conservative to individualist libertarian, or what he called rational anarchist.
Also HOLY SHIT did the man like to write about his own kinks.
Also HOLY SHIT did the man like to write about his own kinks.
The spanking I can get past, but the extensive genetic analysis in “The Tale of the Twins Who Weren’t” in Time Enough for Love was a tad… indulgent of something.
I’m not sure if Heinlein genuinely thought it would be rad. He did play around with a lot of ideas in his books. Stranger in a Strange Land is totally different and full on hippie communism or whatever you’d call it, which is in a bit of a contrast to Starship Troopers. And then there’s the Finnish matriarchy in one of the books. Of course another explanation was that he just radically changed his minds but I dunno.
Interesting stuff, nevertheless and IMO really good book if you like military scifi.
If you read his books in the order they were written, you can watch him transition from liberal socialist to authoritarian conservative to individualist libertarian, or what he called rational anarchist.
Also HOLY SHIT did the man like to write about his own kinks.
The spanking I can get past, but the extensive genetic analysis in “The Tale of the Twins Who Weren’t” in Time Enough for Love was a tad… indulgent of something.
That whole book was an incest wankfest
How do you world build if you don’t feature your kinks prominently, front and center?
Imagine if you will, a ring that could render you completely invisible to the naked eye…