Don't Sell 'Em Short

Transentient · 12 Apr 2007, 22:29 · from 2007-April.txt.gz

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From: transentient at gmail.com (Transentient)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:29:29 -0400
Subject: (urth) Don't Sell 'Em Short
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On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:54 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:

>
>> While [Starship Troopers] was not especially faithful to the book  
>> IIRC
>> it did successfully capture the "tone" and "angle" of the book.  
>> The book
>> was one of those scifi stories (there were a lot of these in the  
>> 50s) that
>> were really just the author's memoir of military life with some
>> sociopolitical commentary thrown in.
>
> Ah yes, a naval officer's memoir of his life in the infantry.
>
> What's really interesting about Heinlein - way more than his  
> writing - is
> the influence he has had upon the modern (US) military, which is  
> profound.
> There was a series of talks about this at the 2002 WorldCon.
>
> I've not seen the movie. I think that Heinlein generally is  
> overrated, but
> I value the book reasonably well. Of course I was an infantryman and I
> mostly agree with Bob's political ideas.
>

There is a petition on the internets somewhere to have a US aircraft  
carrier named after him, I think.

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