[ale] Heinlein's 100th

[rhia]

D. D. Harriman was robbed! 

R.A.H. is definitely my favorite author. Never quite fell into the
Podkayne set (his earlier works were rather rough and, ahem, sexist), I
fell for "Friday" (second best opening line ever) and "The Moon is a
Harsh Mistress", from there to anything/everything Lazarus Long and the
Howard family.  If I could have anything in the universe, I'd ask for
complete acceptance - especially genetically - in the larger Howard
family on Tellus Tertius, secondary would be Gay Deceiver to love me as
family (along with Zeb, Detty, Hilda, and Jacob.) Once accepted into
that lineage, what else is there? <g>

otho, just, um, no Beulahland - I'd last maybe 5 seconds longer than
Woodrow Wilson Smith. (I'd be the one pointing at Lazarus while running
towards the hills.)

Mama Maureen ... I miss you.

rhia


On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 10:18 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> My brother who isn't in IT finally got internet a few years back and in
> reply to his first email to me I told him he was:
> "A Stranger in a Strange LAN"
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> James P. Kinney III
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 9:58 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Heinlein's 100th
> 
> On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 08:37 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> 
> > 'Rolling Stones' and 'The Moon and Harsh Mistress' by the way have a
> > character in common.  She was the matriarch in the former and in the
> > latter (a prequel sort of) she was a young girl in the lunar
> revolution.
> 
> It was the recurring characters in Heinleins worlds that I always found
> fun.
> 
> For reasons I don't recall, I never read "Stranger in a Strange Land"
> until around 1995. A friend handed me a copy of the original manuscript
> version that had just been released by his wife. It was about 1/3 longer
> than the originally published version. After I groked that copy, I went
> back and read the original version. The public got a great story but
> really missed nearly all of the philosophy behind the actions.
> 
> When I grow up I want to be Jubal Harshaw.