@RUTGERS.ARPA:Q.QUUX@[36.48.0.1] (03/26/85)
From: Alderson@Score Beg to differ. Heinlein did NOT suffer a stroke, but WAS at one time suffering from circulation-deficiency problems of the brain. I do not recall the details--and I loaned (permanently, it seems) my copy of _Expanded Universe_ to a friend. However, in one of the non-fiction selections therein, he describes the events which led to his recovery; as I recall, the original version of this essay was his testimony before a Congressional committee looking into "just what the space program has done for us." (NB: The quotes are MY paraphrase.) I agree about the joy at the publication of _Friday_; however, I fear that most RAH fans will disagree with us. I've found that few of them like anything since _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_. (I myself didn't like _Farnham's Freehold_ the first time I read it.) Most of them seem to object most to his reaction to the Panshins' criticism of _Stranger in a Strange Land_, that he couldn't write about sex. Enough fuel for the fires. And a mini-flame: Goulart is as bad as Herbert and Leinster! Rich Alderson -------
marko@mako.UUCP (Mark O'Shea) (04/03/85)
I am a big fan of RAH and "Friday" was very much in the style I have grown to know and love. I have a question. Has Anyone read "The Number of the Beast"? I read it and am puzzled. Did RAH put one over on me? Did I just miss the point(s). Was it just a different tack and I wasn't ready for it? Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks. No need to post a reply unless you want to. A reply by mail would satisfy me. Mark