![]() (But Ursula Le Guin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969 so Heinlein you have no excuse!) So, I already told you the plot. yeah seriously did we take a left turn at Piers Anthony here? And it's not like Heinlein didn't have the writing chops to make this interesting, or that he couldn't explore mind-bending ideas, including gender reification which when he wrote this in 1970 still was barely out of the realm of science fiction. ![]() The result is "I Will Fear No Evil", in which a 90-something-year-old man has his brain transplanted into the body of his hot secretary and promptly turns into the girliest girl who ever spent most of a novel running around tee-heeing that she's not wearing any panties. ![]() appalling distillation of the very skeeviest crevices of that dirty old man's id, dredged from the depths of early 20th century gender stereotypes and glossed with the 1970s "free love" aesthetic Heinlein had going on. I had never read this abomination, though. But he gave us "Starship Troopers" and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "Podkayne of Mars" (I know, that last one rarely makes anyone's list of Heinlein favorites, but I liked it), and a lot of other fantastic science fiction, much of which is actually teen-friendly and teen-accessible. I forgave him for "Friday." By the end of his career, the Old Man was pretty much just churning out whatever he felt like. ![]() Heinlein what were you thinking? I don't even know where to begin. If you're a Heinlein fan, don't ruin it, run away! ![]()
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