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    Quote Originally Posted by thescot View Post
    BTW, Rob Wright, that picture on the cover is really good. I suppose Lapus Lazuli and Loralie Lee (sp?) are the two youngers ladies at his shoulder and knee.

    (I can't believe I remember all this stuff after two or three decades since reading his works. Guess it's back to my long buried library to bring out a few copies to work on.)
    What's worse, two of the girls in my pic are A LOT like the twins Keep me in line they do.

    Rob

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    Quote Originally Posted by thescot View Post
    (I can't believe I remember all this stuff after two or three decades since reading his works. Guess it's back to my long buried library to bring out a few copies to work on.)
    For those who have not revisted RAH recently, be aware that the original text of Stranger in a Strange Land was published when the copyright was renewed (1991 edition). As you probably know, it was cut considerably for publication...
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    Quote Originally Posted by fluter View Post
    For those who have not revisted RAH recently, be aware that the original text of Stranger in a Strange Land was published when the copyright was renewed (1991 edition). As you probably know, it was cut considerably for publication...

    I need to check that out. Stranger in a Strange Land was my favorite of Heinlein's books.
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    Major fan. Just like Spider Robinson, "Rocket Ship Galileo" was my first "real" book as a kid. I really love space opera -- I used to have a radio reading program entitled "Space Opera Adventure" in which Heinlein, Bone, Kornbluth, Smith and others were read. Loads of fun!

    I agree that the blaster's in the wrong place! Bob's old stories are perennial favourites on cold winter nights, when the darkness presses on the glass and the woodstove is working overtime...

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    I met Bob Heinlien three times. First, as a fifth-grader when I read "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel; next, during the summer between grade school and junior high when I read, for the first time, "Starship Troopers"; finally I met Bob at a party at some science fiction convention we were attending when my wife introduced us. In real life he was even better than his books.



    And that's saying a lot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown View Post
    In real life he was even better than his books. And that's saying a lot.
    And Ginny was most gracious. I was introduced through J.F. Bone, another SF writer who lived in my home town and was an old Army buddy of my father's.

    It seems many writers are good people -- Heinlein, Bone, Spider Robinson, and Jack McDevitt spring to mind (and also tell you what I like in SF...). I've either met or carried on extended correspondences with all of them, and always come away feeling like there were so many ways I could be a better person.

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    Been one since grade school. I travel quite a bit for my job and always make sure to have a science fiction book or three when I fly. I am always checking out new authors, but not many are as good as Heinlein. Guess it's about time to start reading his works again!
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    Been awhile since I read one, I have moved my oldest son toward Heinlein's novels, grok is a part of my vocabulary.

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    If memory serves (and it's a terrible servant these days), "Podkayne of Mars" was one of his juvenile stories, as well as "Rocket Ship Galileo". There certainly were more, but those are the only two titles that come to mind. I read them more years ago than I care to own up to, and then moved on to his other titles.
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    I, too, grocked Heinlein for over 45 years.

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