/lit/ - Literature

I’ve heard that his works are good, but a couple need some work. Any takes?

Discuss his books and the man himself, I’d like to hear what you have to say, anons. Whether you like him or not, he did contribute to the Sci-Fi genre in literature.

I have Robert Heinlein on my sci-fi list but I forget what books of his I was interested in. I had started Methuselah's Children and thought the concept was interesting but I got bored pretty quickly.

>>22116587
virigin literary fiction writer. calls himself a leftist actually the spawn of a CIA program to defang literature as a political force, his dream is to write the great american novel, probably something about banal bourgeois family drama in a milquetoast midbrow-with- aspirations-to-highbrow prose . a studied ''realism''- one can barely tell if modernism even happened if joyce wroteanything beyond dublineeers and the portrait of the artist as a young man. if they remember him at all, his illiterate countrymen will denounce him as pretentious and unreadable and a privileged white male. versus chad golden age science fiction hack. is a certified spook spymaster gigachad, churns out self aggrandizing lowbrow pulp fiction full of borderline fetish pornography and racist rants to an eager audience of 12 year old boys- science fiction isnt writing about the future but an hyperstitional sigil writing the future into existence- advises the white house on creating new fantastical systems of technototalitarianism and maybe starts a sex cult or two in his spare time and then leads incredibly succesful psyop to remodel global culture in the image of his interests and highly specific sexual fetishes to the point were fringe subculture becomes the new masscult and the previous ''high culture'' is all but forgotten a fringe curiosity understood only by a handful of looser nerds(hah).

If a book doesn't have incest than I will not read it.

>>21223784
I think it was intentional that the bugs were based off communists (especially China) but Heinlein portrays them in a neutral light. Even Rico, who has all the reason to hate them seems unbiased about them throughout his narration. Perhaps it's because chauvinism is not present in Heinlein's ideal military. I really wish people just read his books and not and jump to conclusions based on what they watched form Paul Verhoeven's midwit hack movie.

Starship Troopers
>crumbling western liberals get into disastrous war with China.
>social scientists turn cities into lawless hell scapes. Feral youthes running rampant. General breakdown of order.

Stranger in a strange land.
>global government and giant corporations conspired together.
>Automated vehicles used to disappear whistle-blowers.

How did a mid 20th century sci fi author get so much right?

>1959
YEAH KILLEM ALL WAR ALL THE TIME BEAT YOUR FUCKING KIDS IF YOU DON'T BEAT YOUR KIDS YOU'RE A FUCKING PUSSY
>1961
maaaaaaaan what if we all just got alooooooong free love maaaaaaan

What the fuck happened

Why were all his books about fucking his kids?

>moon is a harsh mistress
>stranger in a strange land
>starship troopers
>the fifth column
>the cat who walked through walls

>A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

What did he mean by this?