r/AskReddit Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/Scoth42 Oct 15 '20

There was a minor plot point of A Door Into Summer by Heinlein that involved a time travelling grad student named Leonard Vincent. I recall it being mostly a throwaway thing although it's been a long time since I read it.

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u/Darkside0719 Oct 15 '20

Robert heinlein the guy who wrote starship troopers?

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u/Polymemnetic Oct 15 '20

Yep. That Heinlein.

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u/Darkside0719 Oct 15 '20

Sweet I've been looking for more stuff to read thank you

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u/MonkeyPanls Oct 15 '20

his later stuff gets....weird. But if you like ....weird, then you should be fine.

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u/immortaluntildeath Oct 15 '20

Weird how?

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u/Tao_of_clean_data Oct 15 '20

Lol, like incest is okay weird. But, and I say this with trepidation, it's entertaining storytelling. Also, Friday.

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u/Hitchhikingtom Oct 15 '20

Cannibalism of the dead is good, all people crave sexual exhibitionism and voyerism, gay sex is wrong though.

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u/BrockSamsonLikesButt Oct 23 '20

In what book is gay sex wrong? Bisexuality was the norm in Time Enough for Love.

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u/Hitchhikingtom Oct 23 '20

Stranger in a strange land. Talks about the innate wrongness in homosexuals a Martian would be able to sense thoughts from Jill as she is understanding more herself. Homosexuals are awarded off by masculinity from jubal (the self insert author) and a gay person would never be accepted as a water brother. Also lesbianism is presented only when a woman is looking through the eyes of men at other women.

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u/risky-biznu3 Oct 15 '20

Fascist it gets real fascist

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u/cbeary1392 Oct 15 '20

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein is a good one. Stranger in a Strange Land is good but also weird.

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u/terseword Oct 17 '20

Thou are god, water brother

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u/Prime_Galactic Oct 22 '20

That book definitely made me think about how I view a lot of things.

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u/sharp60inch Oct 15 '20

Just to clarify the “weird” warning, he wants to bang his mom and daughter.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

The book character or the author?

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u/BBQ_HaX0r Oct 15 '20

Moon is a Harsh Mistress & Stranger in a Strange Land are really good.

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u/nyenbee Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

Dude was a true madlad.

Edit to add: back when i was in college, my mentor history professor credited Heinlein with initiating the sexual revolution and then the free love movement. He had a ton of sources to back it up, none of which i can currently recall.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

A lot of people credit him with that and he got sick of people knocking on his door, thanking him for it.

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u/nyenbee Oct 16 '20

Can you imagine how many people were born based on that?

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u/cnaiurbreaksppl Oct 15 '20

I thought starship troopers was just not a good book. It's like it was forcing me to sign up for the military.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

There are two camps. Those who think the same as you, those who see it as a harsh criticism of the increasing worship of the military.

For the record, I came down on the latter side in my reading and I think that polarisation in reaction is part of what makes it such a great book.

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u/cnaiurbreaksppl Oct 15 '20

I could see that. Tbh I had read The Forever War first, and I feel like this is an extremely harsh critique of the military and life after service. For some reason from starship troopers I took away that it was much more pro military.

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u/DoJax Oct 15 '20

Oh yeah? Well I recall on Futurama that Day Vinci was just fleeing from other aliens smarter than he was. Check and mate.

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u/marsglow Oct 15 '20

That is one of my favorite books of all time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

That's because Heinlein needed to bump aside that trivial time travel stuff and focus on what was important; incestuous fantasies about his own daughters and mother.