My favorite Heinlein bit

"were not teaching you to be dangerous with a knife, we are teaching you to be DANGEROUS"
Sgt Zimm Star Ship Troopers.

I love RAH upto Stranger in a Strange Land then he goes a bit off for me.

as a side note RAH was part of two fairly neat groups

In WW II he was part of a group of writers asked by the navy to "think outside the box" for a solution to the Devine Wind (kamakazi) atacks.

In 1980 or '81 he was asked by a long time political fello travler to "think out side the box for an ABM system" his name was Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Funny story goes with that, at on of their first meetings at RAH's house they were starting to to talk about SDI (I think RAH,A.C.Clark,Niven,and Pornel were present)
Arthur C. Clark questined the etheics "millitarizing space" after which RAH asked "You are not an American are you ?" A.C.C "No I am British" RAH "why don'nt you go back there." A.C.C left and the two never spoke agin. Way to Go RAH !!

[This message has been edited by Nestor Rivera (edited February 17, 2000).]

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I've read just about every RAH available, but prefer the juvies.

I pretty much agree with Glenn, although I enjoyed 'Stranger'. His preoccupation with sexuality in his later years really detracted from the books.

Also in his later years he was so powerful in the SF world, he was under-edited.

I never heard the story regarding Clark,Pournelle,Niven and RAH.
 
I can't wuite recall the actual name of the stroy, I read it when i was 14 (15 years ago), but it had to d with a school trip trhough some kind of worm-hole to another planet for the week-end. All the students checked arms out of the school armory. The were stranded on the planet for a few months. It was a really cool story, and when you are 14 and reading about checking weaponry out of the school armory...gets you thinking. I think it was called "Hole in the Sky", but I'm not sure. Also another good one was "Friday" with his commentary about the break-up of the US and survivalism.

:cool:
 
I recall an article on RAH, where he stated, according to the author, that he had a blank out period of several years in his late life and had no memory of writing several books, including Friday and the Cat That Walked Through Walls.

Fact is, the man wrote better in his dotage than most writers do in their prime. And, if the sexuality bothers you, one can skip it, tho I doubt many do.
 
I've no trouble with sexuality. Time traveling to pork my momma is just a little out there for me. Not such a great idol
for the gun world in his later writings.
 
A little (well maybe a lot) off topic but there is a tie-in, I for one will not be going to see "battle field earth". I did read the book a long time ago but that was before I learned what L.Ron Hubbard was doing. As for the tie-in with RAH, Hubbard was one of the people in the 1940's group with RAH
An account can be found at http://www.ronthewarhero.org/crippled.htm
give it a read its a hoot!
 
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