Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (Armies of freaks, geeks, nerds, media moguls and fan boys are desending upon San Diego for the largest trade show gathering in the Galaxy ( at least this one), for the annual cultural tsunami otherwise known as Comic Con. They all owe a huge debt of gratitude to science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein.
Whether we're looking at post-Star Wars pop culture, post-Reagan politics, or the day-to-day tenor of our own lives in the Internet age, it's easy to see that while more literary novelists such as Philip Roth and Saul Bellow enjoy high-flying critical reputations, it's Heinlein's fingerprints that mark the modern world. ( Reason)
Email this entry to a friend
View the Technorati Link Cosmos for this entry
Comments
Thanks for the terrific link to the article at Reasononline, and I hope all your readers visit that link. I've defended Heinlein here at Scienceblogs on two occasions, and many commenters seemed to know only the false, warmonger image of him.
Posted by: Jon | July 26, 2007 02:49 PM
Leaving aside the "false" warmonger image of him,(how about the purile sexist image, is that false too?) he really did write some crap.
I remember being stuck in the back of a way-too-small panel van somewhere in a rainy cold Europe with nothing to read but one of his lesser(but popular)efforts that I had already read. After a few minutes of reading, I would toss it to the other end of the van in disgust, only to pick it up later, because, as I said, there was nothing else to read.
I hated it, and have never read another word he wrote. I had read a lot of his stuff up to that point, I consumed sci-fi voraciously way back then. I would sooner have my fingernails slowly pulled out than to read another word that hack wrote. rb
Posted by: arby | July 28, 2007 09:26 PM