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Re:Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction... by pinewurst on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:46PM (#18748894)
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.
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Re:Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction... by mirimir on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:47PM (#18749713)
All You Zombies came out in 1959!

https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a...

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Re:Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction... by duggan on Monday December 24, 2018 @03:45AM (#18751168)
Until reading this, I had no idea the film Predestination was based on a Heinlein short.
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Re:Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction... by walrus01 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:55PM (#18748944)
Totally subjective opinion, but 1970s Heinlein is the literary equivalent of somebody's creepy libertarian uncle who leers at teenage girls.
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Re:Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction... by knodi123 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:51PM (#18749242)
subjective, 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.
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