Sam Hall

[Joel S. Berson]

Are some of us conflating the author with his narrator?

At 11/3/2009 11:22 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>Heinlein was all over the map.  His first novel, unpublished until a few
>years ago, was _For Us, the Living_ and it was a treatise for Social
>Credit.  He had been a writer for Upton Sinclair's newspaper "EPIC News"
>during the 1930s. "Misfit" was his second published story, and it was
>essentially the Civilian Conservation Corps in space -- straight up New
>Deal politics.  He had libertarian elements as early as his 1942 novel,
>"Beyond this Horizon".  _Starship Troopers_ is often called fascistic
>(wrongly, I think).  _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ is indeed a seminal
>document of the American Libertarian movement.
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>One continuing theme in Heinlein's writing, from his pre-war stories
>through his death, is a condemnation of slavery (and he includes the
>draft as slavery).
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> > > Not entirely true.  Heinlein was fairly far left when he began
> > selling.
> > >    The same for Poul Anderson.
> > >
> > > Mack Reynolds and John Brunner were leftists to the end.
> > >
> > > Dan Goodman
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> > Brunner I'd agree, but I'd tend to see Anderson and (especially) Mack
> > Reynolds as libertarian rather than leftist.  (Ditto with Heinlein in
> > _The
> > Moon Is A Harsh Mistress_.)  But this may be a matter of perspective,
> > Brit
> > vs. USAmerican.
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> > Then again, which I suspect is more likely, I may just be entirely
> > wrong.
> > I'm working with thirty year old memories here.
> >
> > Robin Hamilton
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