[ExI] Looking back at Heinlein's Future History - coming true before our eyes.

[William Flynn Wallace]

spike wrote -  best work was later than this however.  Agreed Heinlein’s
visions of the future were stunning.  I see his contribution as having
moved SciFi from being all spaceships and ray guns, kids stuff really, to
be more of its own legitimate genre

I wonder what kids thought of his later works - incest, homosexuality,
orgies.  We know that in 'real life' he had sex parties, swapped wives, was
a closet nudist (what does that mean?).  All of which bothers me not at
all, real life or fiction.  But none of his later works won any prizes, I
think.  If you read Grumbles from the Grave and the one about his trip to
Australia, he could be a super neurotic grouch and obsessive-compulsive.
It must have been hard to be around him and follow all his customs and
manners and rules.    He was a genre writer and a great one.  I wonder what
his fiction might have been had he written some mainstream books.  Still
great, I think.  bill w



On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 8:44 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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