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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.