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jep
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response 50 of 56:
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Sep 23 00:09 UTC 2003 |
If you're looking for a good forgery of Heinlein, skip Spider Robinson
and John Varley, who were often compared to Heinlein in their day. Get
a copy of Alexei Panshin's "Rite of Passage". It is unquestionably the
best non-Heinlein Heinlein book out there.
Panshin was a literary critic, I guess, who wrote a biting criticism of
Heinlein called "Heinlein in Dimension". He then apparently took
everything he criticized about Heinlein's juvenile novels, and wrote
what he thought Heinlein should have written. He made it work really,
really well. It's a terrific book.
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gelinas
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response 51 of 56:
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Sep 23 02:57 UTC 2003 |
Hmm.... Heinlein claimed that he wrote his first short story in response to
an advertisement of a contest. He doesn't _quite_ indicate it was the first
thing he had ever written; he says, "I could do better than that." Still,
the title is very close to an Ayn Rand novel. Interestingly, that novel seems
to have been published in 1959 (I'd thought it was about twenty years earlier
than that). Does Virginia claim this is one Robert's works?
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anderyn
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response 52 of 56:
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Sep 23 18:14 UTC 2003 |
I love "Rite of Passage". I recommend it to all the mothers of teenage girls
I know, because it's one of the best young-adult emulations I've ever seen.
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flem
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response 53 of 56:
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Sep 23 20:03 UTC 2003 |
Slightly off topic, but for young-adult emulation, Peter Beagle's _Tamsin_
blew my socks off. It was hard to believe that it was a middle-aged man
writing it; it sounded and felt disturbingly like a teenage girl.
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dbratman
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response 54 of 56:
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Oct 8 04:15 UTC 2003 |
And to flip the sexes, my candidate for the best depiction of a teenage
boy written by a middle-aged woman is "Very Far Away from Anywhere
Else" by Ursula K. Le Guin, which is not fantasy or SF at all.
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asdfg
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response 55 of 56:
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Jan 24 23:42 UTC 2005 |
Well, the fourth of Heinlein's predictions has proved sadly, sadly wrong,
hasn't it?
Pre-emptive wars are now part of the aggressive US foreign policy.
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aruba
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response 56 of 56:
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Feb 15 20:24 UTC 2005 |
indeed.
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