... The remainder of the vouchers were spent on Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Robert A. Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I read  Neil Gaiman’s Smoke and Mirrors earlier this ... found the writing to be of my liking; that’s why I chose American Gods. As for Mr. Heinlein’s book, well, it’s probably no secret that I’m a fan of Starship Troopers, so much ...

... to see that the one on civility had gone to twenty-five comments, even though more than half were on Heinlein. I wasn’t all that surprised by that, since it must be an internet truism that any posting on the internet, given ... soundly spanked by Lazarus Long. Naturally – again, by the inescapable logic of Heinlein’s multiverse – Sigaliris would immediately fall in love with ...

... was uncomfortable. He next attempted to fill it with Jell-O, but this too was a failure.[citation needed] Ultimately, he abandoned working on a chair, and settled on perfecting a bed. However, because a waterbed is described in the novels Beyond This Horizon (1942), Double Star (1956), and Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein, Hall was unable to obtain a patent on his creation.

What are the marks of a sick culture? It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population. A very bad sign. Particularism. It was once considered a Spanish vice but any country can fall sick with it. Dominance of males ...

<span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" >A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal ...

... an inordinately die-hard U2 fan. I'm not about to make any serious comparison between them and Heinlein, except to say that slipping into Double Star, rediscovering him after a few years away, reminded me of ... but it's elegantly, even movingly executed, and a rather neat trick for Heinlein, relying as it does on as an awareness of that persistent, instantly recognizable voice that pervades ...