Re: Today's idle question

jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (James Nicoll) wrote in
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In article <Xns9A428438EE239mss2mediaonenet@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Michael S. Schiffer <mschiffe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (James Nicoll) wrote in
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co m>, Will in New Haven <bill.reich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

That gets rid of the MWL in several of the Heinlein juveniles.
And most of the ones left were teachers, wo were _supposed_ to
lecture. No one but Doc, who isn't around much, fits a strict
MWL in <Red Planet>

Doc's an odd character and at one point I seriously
wondered
if he wasn't to the humans as the ancient Martians were to the
regular sort (which in turn suggest that he might be Michael
Valentine Smith or this timeline's version of him).

nit: Valentine Michael Smith.

I've similarly wondered if he was Lazarus Long under an alias.
(We know Lazarus bummed around the Solar System for a while, and
Doc gives some hints that he's older than any of the characters
perceive him to be.)

Wrong timeline and by the time LL got the habit of timeline
hopping, he also had the habit of making all books that
contained him suck. Since RP doesn't suck, it can't be LL.

I was thinking that it's early enough that Heinlein hadn't clearly
delineated which Mars went in which timeline. _Red Planet_ is
clearly the testbed for the Mars of _Stranger_, which fills in an
incompatible history. But is there anything in _Red Planet_ itself
inconsistent with the Future History?

(By late Heinlein, the timelines weren't just hoppping but mixing:
IIRC, in _The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the main character from
_Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ Luna talks to Jubal Harshaw as if
they're not only both from the same world, but one where Neil
Armstrong was the first man on the moon. This is inconsistent with
_Moon_, but even more so with _Stranger_'s focus on the Larkin
Decision-- which stemmed from a non-Apollo moon landing and
produced a Luna that became independent without a penal colony
revolt.)

Mike
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