Robert A. Heinlein

[throttlejockey34]

It seems that if we were to borrow some of RAH's concepts in our society, it might be a better place...

[Abignalessuccessor]

We'd all be alot better off if our society was ore like the one from Starship Troopers (Novel not the book)

[rdvqc]

You get the best idea of RAH's vision by reading his books from the late 40's and early 50's.

You also get an amazing view of a growth of world view as you read his later books.

I think I have read them all - at least all that I have been able to find in the last 50 years or so - a wonderful voyage.

[fotolabman]

lol born 1907 not 1970 

[ErikNikolai]

I love his idea that true citizenship should be EARNED, and that you should need one in order to participate in politics. You should not gaincitizenship just for incidentally existing.

[bkiene]

I believe I have every book and story written by Robert Heinlein and I read them all every year...I can almost quote from them as if they were religious writings! I am currently reading Stranger in a Strange Land and once again I am "in the nest" and trying to "grok" everything that is going on around me.

[Suranda68]

@bkiene Do you like some spaghetti with tomato sauce? :)

[bkiene]

@Suranda68 @bkiene - I do like spaghetti with tomato sauce...do you think there is a little bit of Valentine Michael Smith chopped up in it? hahaha

[Suranda68]

@bkiene Why not? :) Especially considering that I have never been Michael (Jubal Harshaw is still my heroe). Last week I tried for the first time to tell my son (7) that a "door into summer" was not necessarily a real door and that writers like to describe things a bit different... however, all the best to you from Germany :D

[MySerenity11]

@bkiene hey I'm 'in the nest" now too!

[dayofami]

@bkiene you're a G

[doctorw2]

this is one of my favorite authors i have read and loved all his books, but the book Friday disturbed me somewhat becuase there was a lot of anti semitism in that book and also the other book which has that one bloke on a boat and he drifts about in diffrent time periods not liking blackamoors as he called them.

[filmnstuff]

I think you mean he was born in 1907, not 1970. Unless he teleported forward in time a couple of decades as a baby.

[carlosreyes11]

Great biography! The moon is a harsh mistress is my favourite book of all time :)

[chubbz82]

@carlosreyes11

I like that book because it ties into "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" most of all I think Adam Saleen AKA microftxxx was a very funny character. I just finished re-reading that one and now I'm re-reading Franhams Freehold.... Man that one is a twist, check it out

[mjufpn]

read the star ship troopers.... :D

great book. *but I had to read it second time before it occured to me how genius book it was.

[Dogmeat1950]

@mjufpn same here.

[MrLaurent45]

Je viens de finir Révolte sur la Lune =The moon is a harsh mistress, un grand classique. J'avais bien aimé les Histoires du futur = Future History mais son nom est surtout parlant pour Starship troopers et les traces idéologiques laissées tout au long de sa carrière.

[CosmoShidan]

Wish there was an interview of Heinlein. He's a great author.

[edslides]

my all time favorite is expanded universe

[tedlicious]

Why? It is one of his I have never read? What is is about?

[edslides]

howdy ted. expanded universe is sort of a collection of short storys and essays, with a good deal of input from his wife. and what a girl she is/was! it is the original reference for his now famous quote,"an armed society is a polite society" and there are some really great storys contained in this volume. a really good (confusing) read is

the "number of the beast", and "friday"

and can you imagine a world without the letter "y"?

[sjdoc]

Mispronouncing Heinlein's name, which uses the German pronunciation: "Hine-line," not "Heen-lean."

[Bullettube]

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