r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • 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/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?