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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9446824" data-attributes="member: 11760">Oh, I think there are great things in Moon, Stranger in a Strange Land (although it was wildly over-hyped by the hippies) and even Starship Troopers. But in all three, you can see his politics and &quot;old men should be having sex with lots of young women&quot; thing getting more and more intense, presumably as his fame was growing.By the time the 1970s and early 1980s rolled around, he was still doing good stuff -- Friday, which has an ick factor but is still pretty good, and Job, in particular -- but you also have indulgent stuff about Lazarus Long getting laid and various hard body women popping through time and space in service (in every sense) of old dudes.He's less gross than Lieber was at the end, but he was going down the same path.Ironically, I think the best Heinlein books are by John Varley, who gets 99% of the ick out and puts out mostly pure goodness as a result. (Mammoth is pretty weak, but his Eight Worlds novels are fantastic.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9446824, member: 11760"] Oh, I think there are great things in Moon, Stranger in a Strange Land (although it was wildly over-hyped by the hippies) and even Starship Troopers. But in all three, you can see his politics and "old men should be having sex with lots of young women" thing getting more and more intense, presumably as his fame was growing. By the time the 1970s and early 1980s rolled around, he was still doing good stuff -- Friday, which has an ick factor but is still pretty good, and Job, in particular -- but you also have indulgent stuff about Lazarus Long getting laid and various hard body women popping through time and space in service (in every sense) of old dudes. He's less gross than Lieber was at the end, but he was going down the same path. Ironically, I think the best Heinlein books are by John Varley, who gets 99% of the ick out and puts out mostly pure goodness as a result. (Mammoth is pretty weak, but his Eight Worlds novels are fantastic.) [/QUOTE]

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