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
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