This tribe is founded on the love of Robert Heinlein and his novels
[period]

Known as the 'Dean of Space Age Fiction', Heinlein was judged (more than once) as the author of "Best Novel of the Year" by the World Science Fiction convention circa the late 60s and early 70s.

RAH is without close rival the most popular author in the history of science fiction.

That being said... I encourage and support references, reviews and relationships to ALL of RAH's books and anything that even remotely connects us to who Heinlein was (as an author AND human being) and also what he accomplished with his writing.

In other words, telling us about reading or loving some *other* RAH story is GOOD!

I'm mentioning this because I want to clear the way towards the big picture of what RAH was all about.

- RAH wrote many great stories (some juveniles, some not)
including Podkayne of Mars, Between Planets, The Red Planet and others that are related to his speculative vision of the flora/fauna of Mars (in the universes that are portrayed in his stories, as adverse to other hugely popular versions including Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series, and others that I'll list in a later post).

More about that later...

however, the intention of this thread is to jump-start some dialog about his whole body of work.

Heinlein created a future of vast scope and stunning insights, which he began to tell us about in "Methuselah's Children" and continued with the masterful novel "Time Enough For Love" (which without a doubt is a major favorite for many of us)...

At this time I'd like to mention that there are members of this tribe who are involved in another tribe relating to this...

TO MEMBERS OF THE LONG FAMILY TRIBE:
Give us a shout, we'd like to hear from you!



If you have red hair, or if you relate to people who have red hair, or if you LOVE people who have red hair, then you'll have some things to comment on...


*and a honorary mention goes out to the character of Lazarus Long and to our fellow-tribe member who has assumed that Nom de Plume, Lazarus...who gives us many interesting, exciting futuristic concepts to advance our exploration of the nature of humans...and who will be around forever if intelligence and pro-survival traits are any indicators...it is a good thing to be a 'virtual' member of the Howard Family.

To continue this thread I propose creating a list of Heinlein's red-headed characters as a way of honoring something that RAH was obviously intentional about...or if you prefer, let us all know who YOU identify with the most, or who you would like to meet...if you could slip into one of the stories and rub elbows with the characters.

Waiting Is.

Peace and Out for now.
PABlo
(who Groks that being red-headed can be an internal thing too! )