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Re: "farmer in the sky"
Date: 2009-09-18 08:28 pm (UTC)a juvenile ,read half a lifetime
ago perhaps most recently.
it might have some good science as to
how the earth would be perceived etc
and as to living at such a remove
it is this I thought of in relation to yours.
it does,refreshing my memory from wikipedia,
retall stories of old american pioneer days
in this new setting and that is perhaps in
a sense anachronistic although of course
not perhaps entirely as pioneering may
have certain constants...
heinlein is a story teller and also in a way
a relentless moralist and usually there are
points where that annoys me a little... patently
they are usually more annoying still to liberals
but I have not achieved that level and yet still
find him off and on grating.