From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!jss Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Re: Heinlein's latest book Article-I.D.: brunix.1470 Posted: Tue Feb 8 17:13:52 1983 Received: Fri Feb 11 07:33:47 1983 References: mhuxi.1099 everyone is being so polite. i thought 'number of the beast' stunk out loud. i read a lot of heinlein when i was a very young teenager. when i look back at some of it, i feel that he was writing better then, but i shudder at some of the ideas that i was internalizing. most specifically, there is REALLY a line in 'moon is a harsh mistress' to the effect "She was terrific. She was as good as a man." really. Mike Lynch seems to be right about the changes that came when the old-timers 'discovered' sex. however, i don't think we can include Farmer, whom i sort of remember as INVENTING sex-in-science-fiction (and wasn't there a GREAT DEAL of flaming about "lovers" and "mother" at the time?) judith !decvax!brunix!jss