Oh, is that from Back to the Future? I remember watching that film, but it never stayed with me.
Heinlein had some good points; he was a strong supporter of blood drives because his life had been saved by blood donations; I remember meeting him extremely briefly at a blood drive I took part in, at the 1977 World Science Fiction Convention. He also adored his wife. And there are some stories of his where certain images or situations have left me in tears, for all the right reasons; Mary choosing to stay on the planet of the "bunnies" in Methuselah's Children, Lazarus's vision of the geese flying as he (thought he) died in France during WW1 in Time Enough for Love, the death of Beulah the talking mule ("There's a pool hall by the Pawn Shop"...) in the same book.
The stories in 6xH are perhaps his best work, especially The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag and they show what he could do at his best.
But basically he was a fascist who wasted his own considerable potential. I stopped reading him when I got to Farnham's Freehold. I think I managed to finish reading it, but it sucked in so many horrible ways. That was the end of him for me, although I haven't taken his books off my shelf as I did with Marion Zimmer Bradley. Because of what I got from him, and because he wasn't an incestuous, violent child abuser, for one thing.
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Date: Saturday, 25 March 2017 07:17 pm (UTC)Heinlein had some good points; he was a strong supporter of blood drives because his life had been saved by blood donations; I remember meeting him extremely briefly at a blood drive I took part in, at the 1977 World Science Fiction Convention. He also adored his wife. And there are some stories of his where certain images or situations have left me in tears, for all the right reasons; Mary choosing to stay on the planet of the "bunnies" in Methuselah's Children, Lazarus's vision of the geese flying as he (thought he) died in France during WW1 in Time Enough for Love, the death of Beulah the talking mule ("There's a pool hall by the Pawn Shop"...) in the same book.
The stories in 6xH are perhaps his best work, especially The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag and they show what he could do at his best.
But basically he was a fascist who wasted his own considerable potential. I stopped reading him when I got to Farnham's Freehold. I think I managed to finish reading it, but it sucked in so many horrible ways. That was the end of him for me, although I haven't taken his books off my shelf as I did with Marion Zimmer Bradley. Because of what I got from him, and because he wasn't an incestuous, violent child abuser, for one thing.