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BillMullins
Joined: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:40 pm Posts: 545
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Collecting Heinlein
might be of interest to some.
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JackKelly
NitroForum Oldster
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:57 am Posts: 669 Location: DC Metro
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Re: Collecting Heinlein
Absolutely freaking excellent! Thank you for posting this.
Of course, the author's misgivings as stated in the first footnote have, as we know, now been gloriously overtaken by events. You can now throw the rest of that trash out 'cause we got Learning Curve.
And we'll soon have...what the hell are you going to call Part II, Bill?
_________________ "Being right too soon is socially unacceptable." - Heinlein, Expanded Universe
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Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:53 pm |
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BillPatterson
Heinlein Biographer
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:33 pm Posts: 1024
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Re: Collecting Heinlein
The Man Who Learned Better, of course.
That was originaly going to be the title of the whole biography, but Tor's marketing wienies said it has to have RAH as the first words in the title or else bookstore computers can't find it.
In that schema, I really wanted to subtitle volme 2 "Time enough for love." Do you think they would have let me get away with that?
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Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:33 pm |
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sakeneko
Joined: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:22 am Posts: 603 Location: Reno, NV
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Re: Collecting Heinlein
Tor? Unlikely, although PNH and TNH would have been amused. I'm about 50 pages in on my second reading of "Learning Curve". Impressions of my first reading are confirmed; your research is superb and there are lots of details that help paint the picture of who RAH was and how he became that. The detail that most caught my eye the first time through was the near-nomination for a Rhodes scholarship. I'd always known Heinlein was very bright, but that's the norm in the SF world. I hadn't known that he was considered academically talented at that level in college, though. My grandfather graduated from the Naval Academy in 1923, six years before Heinlein. Grandad was a teacher and principal of a prep school after he retired from the Navy. He got his BA, and then MA, long after graduating from the Academy, and told me that he learned what academic rigor was during graduate school, not at the Academy. (At the time, he was explaining to me that I should go somewhere else, which amused me because I'm completely unfit for military life and never even considered one of the military academies.) When does the second half come out?
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Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:44 pm |
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RobertWFranson
NitroForum Oldster
Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:57 pm Posts: 152
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Re: Collecting Heinlein
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Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:48 pm |
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JamesGifford
PITA Bred
Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:17 pm Posts: 2402 Location: The Quiet Earth
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Re: Collecting Heinlein
_________________ "Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders." - Luther In the end, I found Heinlein is finite. Thus, finite analysis is needed.
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Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:02 pm |
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BillPatterson
Heinlein Biographer
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:33 pm Posts: 1024
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Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:47 am |
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BillPatterson
Heinlein Biographer
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Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:49 am |
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PeterScott
Heinlein Nexus
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:10 am Posts: 2236 Location: Pacific NorthWest
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Re: Collecting Heinlein
Never mind that, what's the third half going to be called?
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Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:00 am |
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RobertWFranson
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Re: Collecting Heinlein
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Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:13 am |
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BillPatterson
Heinlein Biographer
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:33 pm Posts: 1024
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Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:56 pm |
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jeepojiii
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:42 pm Posts: 128 Location: Northern VA
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Re: Collecting Heinlein
_________________ OJ III
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Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:11 pm |
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Bilboleslie
Joined: Wed Nov 27, 2013 10:29 am Posts: 6 Location: Sandy, Oregon
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Re: Collecting Heinlein
Thanks for clarifying Caxton. I instantly wondered...
_________________ Member, vast right wing conspiracy. Life Member NRA. Writer for various magazines, including World At War, Bugle, Family Chronicle.
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