01-02-2018, 03:41 PM | #106 | |
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (who couldn't love Mycroft?) The Door into Summer Have Space Suit, Will Travel (the Mother Thing, 'nuff said) Double Star The Rolling Stones The Star Beast Farmer in the Sky Time For the Stars Podkayne of Mars (without Heninlein's original ending, please and thank you) Red Planet Between Planets Tunnel in the Sky Citizen of the Galaxy The Puppet Masters (with or without the excisions replaced) Job: A Comedy of Justice Stranger in a Strange Land Starship Troopers Waldo and Magic, Inc. (two novellas) Several collections Revolt in 2100 The Unpleasant Profession of Johnathan Hoag The Green Hills of Earth The Man who Sold the Moon Expanded Universe Volumes 1 and 2 —All You Zombies— I've read pretty much everything he wrote and have his autograph on several books (I literally bled for those autographs). At times, I could wish the library in Holly Lisle and Ted Nolan's Hell on High could actually exist--The Library of Lost Books. Want James Schmitz sequel to The Witches of Karres? Find it there. Want Robert Heinlein's The Stone Pillow? It's there as well. Want to drown in the ultimate SF slush pile? Shudder... NO!!! |
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01-02-2018, 03:59 PM | #107 |
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I think "Stranger in a Strange Land" was a really silly book. I'd always liked Heinlein a lot till I read that one. As I recall I had recently read "Time Enough for Love" and that made me decide to re-read a bunch of his books. Then shortly afterward "Stranger In a Strange Land" was published and I read it and I was done with Heinlein for a few years.
I re-read it a few years ago as part of a discussion group, something I rarely do, and on second reading it was even worse. Of course most Heinlein fans think it's his best and that discussion got a bit heated, but I survived to lick my wounds. I don't think that was really science fiction. In a lot of ways it was since it included some SF elements, but I think he was just putting his sexual fantasies on paper and I think that was the focus of that book. By the time he wrote "Friday" there wasn't much else but sexual fantasy. This isn't all bad, I guess. The guy probably enjoyed himself. Barry |
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See? I know a lot about Heinlein though I haven't read many of his books. |
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The same with Steven Erikson and Joe Abercrombie, to name but two. I love fantasy doorstoppers and the stories that are not clean-cut good-vs-evil, but those two writers just left me cold, much like Heinlein. Guess there's just no pleasing everyone, no matter how famous one is. |
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I think Asimov and Clarke were real hard science fiction writers and Heinlein sometimes was. He was more freely imaginative and sometimes that went too far. Except for that reread of "Stranger in a Strange Land" a few years ago I don't think I've read any of his books for 20 or 30 years. I have reread some of Clarke's and Asimov's in recent years. I've read "The City and the Stars" every 4 of 5 years since it was written.
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Yep, "The City and the Stars" has always been in my all-time top ten. I read it for the first time when I was ten years old or so (in Estonian, but the translation was excellent) and several times since then.
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01-03-2018, 12:14 AM | #116 |
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While we are meandering in the discussion of RAH, anyone else who was very unhappy with the re-release of Podkayne of Mars with Heinlein's original ending?
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01-03-2018, 11:13 AM | #117 | |
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Looks like most fans prefer the original ending. At least according to a Baen poll and subsequent editions (including the current Kindle version) sticking to it. |
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