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I haven't read any Heinlein but your comment piqued my interest and, after reading the plot summary of the book you linked and summaries of a few others, you se

• Pxtl 3y ago
  If you're looking to try a Heinlein book, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a fun novel about libertarian rebels overthrowing a penal colony on the moon. It tells a great and imaginative story and doesn't shy away from Heinlein's beliefs without letting them completely take over the narrative with ranting. I don't love Heinlein's politics but I can still appreciate his books, but then as a teen-aged white nerd I was kind of the target audience when I first read them.
  • oska 3y ago
    Cheers for the suggestion, I might give that one a go. Something that I was wondering while I was reading about Heinlein and his books was why I hadn't read him. My school library was surprisingly well stocked in classic science fiction, which I explored and read a lot of. So I assume it must have also had Heinlein, unless he'd been 'censored' because of some of his more radical content but the library did have the Illuminatus trilogy, so I don't think so. Did I just never find his books, or did I find them and reject them? It's odd, because I pretty much read any science fiction I could find back then. I'm much less tolerant of science fiction now, to the point of being somewhat intolerant. I often label people as suffering from 'science fiction brain' and I certainly apply that label to Musk for his beliefs in things like that 'Artificial Intelligence' is actually possible (I consider it only an idea to play with in books and not ever feasible in reality). That's why I found your comment interesting; as an insight to the roots of such a 'science fiction brain'.