Thursday, March 11, 2004
Wheee! the living.
have i mentioned lately how much i love will baude?
he just let me know about a new heinlein.
it's one of those 1930's style stories where the professor's lovely daughter explains to the young man from the past all the newfangled gadgets.
i like didactic novels, like the fountainhead. i like utopian novels, especially libertarian/libertine ones. i like heinlein at his worst, say, 6th column.
I'm gonna love this. heinlein is one of the only authors i buy, and i'm not gonna rush right out and get this one, but knowing that it's out there, i'll find it.
Overheard
Will Baude at 12:28 AM
A woman overheard complaining about her boyfriend:
He's just . . . insufficiently Libertarian.
I wish I heard that more often.
OK, Will, you are insufficently Libertarian.
Very disappointing test score, i mean, micha and i got 160/160.
Study hard and take it again.
And yes Will, there are Heinlein scholars. www.heinleinsociety.org
Does anyone know the backstory on the publication of the book at this time?
I'm thinking maybe ginny didn't allow it to be published while she lived, but the literary executors in new york went ahead. that's just a guess.
Robert James, Ph.D., Heinlein Society member and Heinlein scholar, had been researching Heinlein and his life, focusing on Heinlein's second wife Leslyn, when he came across a vague mention of an early novel, a copy of which one-time Heinlein biographer Leon Stover was supposed to have. Robert James went searching, and after serious hunting, finally located a forgotten copy in a box in a garage that had changed hands at least once since Heinlein himself had given it to a friend to be read. This copy had annotations written in the margin by Heinlein himself, with some in a second hand that was probably then-wife Leslyn's.
and a movie.
have i mentioned lately how much i love will baude?
he just let me know about a new heinlein.
it's one of those 1930's style stories where the professor's lovely daughter explains to the young man from the past all the newfangled gadgets.
i like didactic novels, like the fountainhead. i like utopian novels, especially libertarian/libertine ones. i like heinlein at his worst, say, 6th column.
I'm gonna love this. heinlein is one of the only authors i buy, and i'm not gonna rush right out and get this one, but knowing that it's out there, i'll find it.
Overheard
Will Baude at 12:28 AM
A woman overheard complaining about her boyfriend:
He's just . . . insufficiently Libertarian.
I wish I heard that more often.
OK, Will, you are insufficently Libertarian.
Very disappointing test score, i mean, micha and i got 160/160.
Study hard and take it again.
And yes Will, there are Heinlein scholars. www.heinleinsociety.org
Does anyone know the backstory on the publication of the book at this time?
I'm thinking maybe ginny didn't allow it to be published while she lived, but the literary executors in new york went ahead. that's just a guess.
Robert James, Ph.D., Heinlein Society member and Heinlein scholar, had been researching Heinlein and his life, focusing on Heinlein's second wife Leslyn, when he came across a vague mention of an early novel, a copy of which one-time Heinlein biographer Leon Stover was supposed to have. Robert James went searching, and after serious hunting, finally located a forgotten copy in a box in a garage that had changed hands at least once since Heinlein himself had given it to a friend to be read. This copy had annotations written in the margin by Heinlein himself, with some in a second hand that was probably then-wife Leslyn's.
and a movie.
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