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Originally Posted by DanaC
It is. I kind of like that about Heinlein. What I really like, though, is that he was part of that first tranch of modern science fiction that explored what it is to be human and the implications of scientific progress. Sometimes it seems achingly naive, and at other times it seems to hit on something more fundamental.
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Stranger in a Strange Land was good for that, but I'm finding Glory Road glib. One of the first SF authors I read was Asimov, a lot of short stories and background too. It's interesting to read abou the early SF movement and how they explored ideas that weren't discussed, i.e. "are all new technologies going to turn out be beneficial in the end"
At first that was often enough, but now a lot of ground has been covered a decent plot and charcters are needed too.