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Fri 9 Jan, 2004 07:11 pm
One of my favorite books is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
What do you think of it?
It's my oldest and dearest friend. I revisit Luna about once a year.
Read 'Steel Beach' by John Varley. Excellent tribute to RAH within Varley's future.
(edited for spelling)
Hmmm. Sounds kind of familiar.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein was published in 1996. I reread it every few years and find it marvelously undated.
Sealpoet--
Thanks for the correction. The publication year should have been l966.
I discovered the book late last year. Apart from the fact that Mannie seems to change his way of speaking fairly frequently, I thought that it was a superlative piece of writing. In fact, it's probably one of the best of Heinlein's that I have a copy of.
Welcome ender... the enemy's gate is down and all that.
And there's no such thing as a free lunch!
Very good noddy. Now, can you tell me what 'forb' is and where you read it?
Sealpoet--
Sorry, "forb" is currently circumnavigating a senior moment and unavailable.
Fraglap to you.
'forb' Fuel Oxygen Radio Batteries. I think it's from Have Spacesuit Will Travel (but it might be from something by Clarke...)
Hi SealPoet, thank you for the welcome.
The enemy's gate is down, a piece of advice always worth remembering, as is "don't let the Buggers get you down"!
I read Have Spacesuit Will Travel recently and I don't remember seeing forb in it, although my memory is definitely not the best.
Damn. Prolly something out of The Other Side of the Sky (Clarke).
I'll run it through Google and see what comes up.
'The Haunted Spacesuit' Arthur C Clarke.
I'm also partial to Stranger in a Strange Land--although that is a bit more dated, particularly from a feminist point of view.
I prefered Stranger in a Strange Land over, say, Job, but don't care much about magic as a solution to problems - unless fantasy is expected, of course.
Roger--
Fantasy is endemic--how can it not be expected?
I understand Heinlein felt Stranger in a Strange Land was a highly successful pot boiler and an opportunity to tweak the blindly pious.
Do you remember when the revelations about Nancy Regan's astrologer came out? Heinlein Lives!
Well, I was clear on the analogy. I just favored most of his other work.
I thought Starship Troopers was just grand. Strong requirements for citizenship.
I remember reading Mistress when I was 11 and from there I went on to Troopers and Space Cadet. I loved his stories and I one of my great regrets is that I never got to meet the man and tell him what his stories meant to me.
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