Re: sf idea

Irina Rempt wrote:

Brian M. Scott wrote:

(By the way, there's at least one Heinlein short story that
you might actually like, 'The Man Who Traveled in
Elephants'. It's distinctly atypical, a gentle ode to a
time that no longer exists. The description at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Traveled_in_Elephants>
is accurate, so far as I can remember.)

Yes, in fact we have it (in _The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan
Hoag_ and I remember liking it. But I liked most of Heinlein when I
was fourteen, and hated most of it when I was forty. I'll wait until
I'm fifty (another two months) and see if anything's changed.

I like what he wrote during the period when he was establishing his
reputation. I don't like most of what he wrote after he'd become well
enough established that he could insist that editors leave in all the
wonderful stuff they kept trying to take out -- lectures, mostly.


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