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I think RAH went over the cliff into self-indulgence with SIASL, as many authors do later in their career. James Michener as an example in general fiction.
by JJMcJ 5y ago
I think RAH went over the cliff into self-indulgence with SIASL, as many authors do later in their career.
James Michener as an example in general fiction.
- ghaff 5y agoIt's hard to call SIASL late-career unless you basically consider anything post YA as late career. Heinlein would basically be hardly remembered today had he stopped writing before Starship Troopers.
- JJMcJ 5y agoHis later books had the self-indulgent feel that I was referring too. Self-referential, wordy, very strange approach to life.
- ghaff 5y agoIt's obviously totally fine not to like post-juvenile Heinlein but my point is that pretty much no one would remember Heinlein for pre-late 50s YA fiction alone.
- samatman 5y agoAgreed, I would place the onset of 'late career' Heinlein at Number of the Beast. Which it turns out Wikipedia agrees with, when I went to check the bibliography, so there's that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein_bibliography#Late_Heinlein_novels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein_bibliograph...
- ghaff 5y agoThat would have been my intuitive guess--although, looking at that list, there are IMO some real stinkers in mid-Heinlein and a couple of decent books in late Heinlein. I suppose I'd be a bit hard-pressed to really draw a clear distinction between the two periods.