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And as you get to Heinlein's more modern works from (70s on), his fascination with (if not encouragement of) incest becomes readily apparent too.
by pinewurst 8y ago
And as you get to Heinlein's more modern works from (70s on), his fascination with (if not encouragement of) incest becomes readily apparent too.
- walrus01 8y agoTotally subjective opinion, but 1970s Heinlein is the literary equivalent of somebody's creepy libertarian uncle who leers at teenage girls.
- knodi123 8y agosubjective, sure, but pretty widely agreed upon. :-/ Yeah, his later stuff is just as fun and engaging as his earlier works, IMO, but I wouldn't want to let a too-impressionable teen read it, or try to explain the outline to my mother.
- mirimir 8y agoAll You Zombies came out in 1959! https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a281bb7e1a24c6c2ea0c https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a...
- duggan 8y agoUntil reading this, I had no idea the film Predestination was based on a Heinlein short.