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| Author: | RobertPearson [ Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Link - Brin on Heinlein on guns is dead wrong |
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3434 "Brin’s error matters to me personally because, as much as I am anything else, I am one of Heinlein’s children. I have closely studied his works and his life, and that study has shaped me. What I have given to the world through my advocacy of open source is directly tied back to what the Old Man taught me about liberty, transparency, and moral courage. And I am never more Heinlein’s child than when I advocate for an armed (and polite) society." Brin's piece is at http://torforge.wordpress.com/2010/07/1 ... avid-brin/ |
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| Author: | LilLeaguer [ Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Link - Brin on Heinlein on guns is dead wrong |
| Author: | holmesiv [ Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:06 pm ] |
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OK, what was Brin's error? |
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| Author: | vranger [ Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:10 am ] |
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"Alas, most of his novels reach a vigorous climax, concluding part one… and then peter out disappointingly in the last half, amid a morass of garrulous talk." The above was the most incredible statement I found in the article. It sounds like it was written by someone who'd rather watch "Kill Bill" than "12 Angry Men". LOL |
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| Author: | BillMullins [ Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:21 am ] |
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| Author: | RobertPearson [ Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:43 am ] |
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| Author: | holmesiv [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:44 pm ] |
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| Author: | VeraLenora [ Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:05 pm ] |
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Most Heinlein novels reach a radical change in the middle, most often a test of some kind that our hero fails. In the rest of the novel solutions must be found, character must grow. |
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| Author: | JackKelly [ Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:55 am ] |
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One must admit, I think, that Heinlein frequently had trouble with endings; one notable exception being Stranger, and there are others. I have always thought that. One of the more disappointing endings was Double Star, though I've seen opinion that it was one of his strongest. |
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| Author: | JamesGifford [ Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:19 pm ] |
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| Author: | JackKelly [ Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:45 am ] |
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| Author: | JJGarsch [ Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:18 pm ] |
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I'm not exactly sure how this ended up being about Double Star, but I have no complaint. As for its ending, it's a postscript to a memoir written 25 years earlier for therapeutic benefit, as is made clear; he doesn't need to write more than perfunctorily about his political career since he became Bonforte; this isn't for any audience but himself. In any case I'm glad Double Star was included in the new Library of America two-volume set of nine SF novels of the 1950s. |
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