Re: Heinlein/Clarke Recommendations

On Sep 27, 10:01 pm, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sep 25, 12:49 pm, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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"Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
before the descent into I Will Fear No Evil, Time Enough for Love, etc.

Time Enough for Love was a damn fine collection of stories. *

There were some good ones, but separated by way too much editorial
maundering.

If it had been presented as a collection of short stories that
wouldn't have been as hard to overcome.

True, but how much of it works as short story? What I recall is:

The Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail
The Tale of the Adopted Daughter
The Twins Who Weren't (probably the wrong title, but the mirror twins story)
Da Capo

The rest is the sort of endless lecturing that only *true* Heinlein fans
like yourself appreciate.


I skip most of the rest on re-read. For one thing, I don't like
Lazarus Long. Under the right circumstances, he would be ok company
but I don't like him much and only re-read pages that he's on if the
story is really good.

And I couldn't finish typing a page with authors I like at least as
well as or better than Heinlein before I really have to go to bed. But
nobody spends nearly as much time attacking Poul Anderson, to give one
example, or his work as the people on this ng spend being negative,
and IMO dogmatically negative, about Heinlein.

Will in New Haven

--

"If I listened long enough to you,
I'd find a way to believe it was all true,
KNOWIN' that you lied, straight-faced while I cried,
Still I'd try to find a reason to believe."

Tim Hardin - "Reason to believe


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