...and more Heinlein.

[grahamsleight]

This time, online extracts from the discussion I did with John Clute and Gary Wolfe, which is printed in full in the August Locus.

Comments

[tinimaus]

"Maybe the most negative thing that I'd say about Heinlein is that after being bullied by bent syllogisms that demonstrate things I don't believe, the author says, "You mean you believed that? You went through all this ugliness believing that I meant it?" Well, he did mean it; he wrote it! I don't think anyone will ever convince me that you can read a Heinlein novel without having at one point been, as it were, stunned into a belief that you did not wish to hold, and you felt you'd been euchred by it."

That is an excellent comment.

[donovan_s_brain]

Excellent indeed, and it strikes at the heart of why some people don't 'get' Heinlein. They take him too seriously.