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It's a few days late, but I found an interesting cartoon honoring the 100th anniversary of Robert Heinlein's birth.
You won't get it if you haven't read Heinlein.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070718
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I joined the L5 Society long ago and got an autographed copy of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress for it.
... but what a contrast between Have Spacesuit-Will Travel, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Star ship Troopers and his later work like Stranger in a Strange Land and even later books like Friday.
He certainly was one of a kind. I'd like to think Lazarus Long and the twins are still rolling along somewhere and somewhen.
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Nice link
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/robert-heinlein/
... but you know what I meant. He had eclectic tastes and wrote for a variety of markets.
Never mind, I like his work, too. When I was very young the 'space patrol' books were good. Good object lessons: One I recall was that the kids who didn't make fun of or exploit the little furball on Mars got to use its eidetic sound memory to foil bad guys and got to interact with the standoffish Martian grownups, who had been furballs! (Did I get that right? Been a long time.) And, of course, one always eats pie with a fork.
I outgrew those, but not the Lazarus Long stories. I remember a paperback edition with all of them and a timeline. I'm a sucker for interconnected stories.
The boss's comment is a reference to a recurring theme in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress":
TANSTAAFL
TANSTAAFL is an acronym for the adage "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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