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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
To answer your question: what libertarian angle?
Not saying there isn't one. Just saying it's never crossed my mind if there is. Is it libertarian to put a man's brain in a woman's body and riff on the consequences?
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I don't know because I gave up on his door-stoppers after, as a young person, wading though page after page of genetic analysis of whether a brother and sister could mate, and coming to the conclusion that Heinlein was boring.
But I thought his libertarian / right-wing angle was well-known.
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Philip K Dick did say he was a nice man, and he bought Dick a type-writer. Apparently Heinlein changed his political views with his wives. Also apparently Clarke and he didn't get on after he slammed Clarke's views given in a speech to the UN. In any case, I don't see the big fuss over Heinlein. Starship Troopers was good, but that's about it from what I can see. IMO he doesn't deserve his place in the big three. There are far better authors out there, but I appreciate people like different things.