Sam Hall (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Eric Nielsen]

Here's a view of other Heinlein travels:


Towards the end of his career, RAH's novels got very long, very meandering,
explicitly sexual, and very weird. Turned out, he had a *tumor* that was
blocking the flow of blood to his *brain* (really!) and after it was
removed, his fiction (and, reportedly, his personality) really changed
again.

http://boingboing.net/2008/11/10/saturns-children-str.html

Eric


Towards the end of his career, RAH's novels got very long, very meandering,
explicitly sexual, and very weird. Turned out, he had a *tumor* that was
blocking the flow of blood to his *brain* (really!) and after it was
removed, his fiction (and, reportedly, his personality) really changed
again.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> I don't think so.  Heinlein was personally interested in all of these
> political movements.  He was active in the Sinclair movement in CA in
> the mid-1930s, he ran for the state assembly as a Democrat in 1938 and
> attended the 1940 Democratic Party convention in Chicago, he spent money
> out of his own pocket to pay for an ad against the SANE movement in
> 1958, he identified himself as a libertarian in the 1970s (and also as a
> "rational anarchist", I believe, whatever that is).  He actively
> supported the Strategic Defense Initiative when Reagan was spinning it
> up.
>
> But your point is well taken.  Larry Niven:  "We in the writing
> profession have a technical term for people who believe that the authors
> believe everything their characters believe. We call them 'idiots'."
>

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