Sam Hall

[Dan Goodman]

Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> Are some of us conflating the author with his narrator?

In Heinlein's case, probably not.  The political views expressed by his
narrators at various times are consistent with those expressed in his
nonfiction in the same periods.

For much more, see:
Heinlein in Dimension - Contents
INTRODUCTION, by James Blish. I. PRELIMINARIES. 1. The Question 2.
Robert Heinlein 3. Heinlein's Career. II. THE PERIOD OF INFLUENCE ...
www.enter.net/~torve/critics/Dimension/hdcontents.html - Cached - Similar


> 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  His first novel, unpublished until a few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.
>>
>> 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
>>> 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.
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>>> Robin Hamilton
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