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@Mason Wheeler said:@blakeyrat said:The thing about Heinlein... I like his ideas,
but I have trouble reading books where the main character looks and
thinks exactly like Heinlein, and is super-rich, and is constantly
surrounded by beautiful women half his age, and-- basically it's like
bad fan-fic half the time.Exactly, except for the part about liking his ideas. Especially since some of his ideas, especially regarding incest, are kinda on the squicky side...I confess to having a giggle at the more obvious sections of dirty-old-man fantasy, but generally I think people often mistake ideas that Heinlein talked about for ideas he held. So, to take the incest as an example, he comes to it as an issue that logically follows on from the sexual freedom that it develops from, and simply explores it dispassionately.