Re: [UUPoly-L] Rimmer

[alan7388 <alan7388@gmail.com>]

The Harrad Experiment, like Stranger, had a big influence on me and my
partners back then. Nor were we alone. It was the most influential of Robert
Rimmer's books (he wrote many later ones with sexual-freedom/
group-relationship themes). Everyone under 30 knew its name at the time, and
I'd say it counts as one of the books that made the 1960s happen. By 1970
most of us were politically sophisticated enough to be embarrassed by its
sexist assumptions.

Also influential were his later Proposition 31 (about a group-marriage
ballot initiative in California) and Thursday My Love, though these never
had the popularity of The Harrad Experiment. I'm told Rimmer's later books
went downhill.

The favorite of one geezer member of this list (yoo hoo!) is Rimmer's first
book: The Rebellion of Yale Marratt.

Alan M.