Thread: Sci-fi authors you (and I) should NEVER read
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Old 11-11-2009, 12:05 PM   #109
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Originally Posted by charleski View Post
I suppose I should apologise for having brought up Heinlein, since he seems to have unduly dominated much of this thread.
No, no please don't apologize! This is absolutely the liveliest discussion I've ever had on mobileread!

I haven't exercised my literary geekness since taking on the Christianity thread on theleakycauldron.com after HP book 7.

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I have one thing to say though: any author who voices extremist views and then needs to be defended by the claims that they have to be viewed 'in context' or that 'they're just the views of the characters' has failed. Either they have failed through over-subtlety and obscurantism or they have failed through a lack of the courage of their convictions, however vile those might be. Heinlein's failure may well have been a mix of both of these, and I think the extents to which people have to go to defend him demonstrates how confused and disordered his thinking was.
I liked "scumbag" but I'm flexible. "Confused and disordered" works too!

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