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Makes me think of Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land". Although arguably, they really had something going for them. Anyway, always interesting to hold Hei
by pasbesoin 9y ago
Makes me think of Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land". Although arguably, they really had something going for them.
Anyway, always interesting to hold Heinlein's writing up to contemporary society. Or rather, to have comparisons spontaneously appear in one's thinking as one surveys circumstances.
- maxerickson 9y agoThere's some claims that Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard had discussions about religion prior to the writing of Stranger in a Strange Land and founding of Scientology. https://everything2.com/title/The+Heinlein+-+Hubbard+Wager+Myth https://everything2.com/title/The+Heinlein+-+Hubbard+Wager+M...
- bobsil1 9y agoBot god = PK Dick's "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_Eldritch#Plot_summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_E...