[UUPoly-L] Stranger In A Strange Land

[licorice gumdrop <licorice.gumdrop@gmail.com>]

Heinlein also has a
> disturbing belief in eugenics and may even  have been racist (as in  
> White
> Supremacist) in his personal thinking.   Despite these disturbing  
> tendencies, I
> still enjoy his writing.
>
> Selah Eric Spruiell

i just re-read "Friday," and at least as far as that book goes, it's  
hard to see racism (beyond possible romanticization of the 'other') in  
Heinlein's writing. eugenics, though, definitely. (I found Friday  
problematic for other reasons, though - not least of which being that  
I don't think Heinlein writes female characters very well, designing  
them as either unlikeable manipulators or to fit an oversexualized  
adolescent male ideal.)

judging by the recent discussion, i'm feeling like I must be the only  
person to have found SIASL to be horribly boring. i didn't even get  
through the whole book, and it's been gathering dust on my bookshelf  
for years.

it is nice that a positive spin on alternative relationship structures  
has such a permanent home in mainstream sci-fi, though.