on 8/12/02 11:33 pm, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 5:13 PM > Subject: Re: I Robot, NOT > > >> Alberto (I think) wrote: >>> _Starship Troopers_-the-movie is a Masterpiece!!! One of the best movies >>> ever made!!! >> >> Can we assume you are kidding? Please? >> >> If not, can we assume you've never read the book and that's why you liked >> that piece of film-making dreck? :-) > > Personally, I think the movie is superior to the book. The book takes > itself seriously. Heinlein actually believed in the theme of Starship > Trooper. He also believed in incest, yuck. I really like some of his > works, like the Moon is a Harsh Mistress, but I only enjoyed his later > stuff and Starship Trooper with a clothespin.
Later than what? _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ (1966) is the last good book he wrote (except possibly _Friday_ (1982)). As for _Starship Troopers_ (1959), Samuel R Delany (award-winning gay black sf author and professor of Comparative Literature) has written about its homoerotic content. (He had an epiphany when he read it, and his own first sf novel _The Jewels of Aptor_ was published in 1962, when he was 20. (He won his first Nebula for Babel-17 in 1966.) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Misuse of IMPs leads to strange, difficult-to-diagnose bugs. - Anguish et al. "Cocoa Programming" _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
