![]() ![]() He’s not misogynistic, he clearly loves women and sees them as capable and wonderful people. I like reading Heinlein because I like Heinlein, chauvinistic and militaristic as he may be he is also a libertarian humanist who loves life and tells a good story. Thus, Heinlein allows us to imagine an almost eternal existence, and without the need to live at night and drink blood. Time Enough for Love goes one step further and introduces us to Lazarus Long (though he was in prior Heinlein novels) as the oldest living human, over 2,000 years old. At its heart, science fiction is about hope, hope that we’ll see a few more years ahead. Time Enough for Love demonstrates the fundamental attractiveness of science fiction, the eternal hope that things will get better.ĭystopian fantasies aside, science fiction deals with the future, and that there are people in the future still carrying on everyday lives. But he was also a visionary who saw the trends of Western Civilization and expounded out into a foreseeable future, not just in terms of science fiction but also in regard to cultures, morals, sociology and ideology. ![]()
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