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I had read a document by... Spider Robinson maybe?, defending Heinlein's writing. Several 'issues' that people supposedly had against him were brought up and refuted. One that he was secretly gay supposedly brought to light by Starship Troopers.
The one I remember the most was that he was... prudish in his writing as there was never any sex or anything close to it. The rebuttal was that at the time the final editing was done by a lady with very stern ideas about what was allowed into books and ruthlessly cut anything that smacked of sex or anything like it. It was pointed out that after she left his stories became more open... such as Friday which could have been written as a "look, I can do sex!".
Anyway after all this I'm going to have to go back and try to re-read some of his writing, old and new and see if I still like it.
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