Alberto Monteiro wrote:
How is The Number of the Beast? I read an excerpt from the book
way back before it was published (in Omni) and was hot to read
the book after that but for one reason or the other never
picked it up.
If you didn't like "Cat" you probably won't like "Number". OTOH,
it ma
Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
>
>> "Cat" is the worst possible "First Heinlein" to read. It makes too
>> many references to other books, it should be Heinlein's _last_.
>
> Cat wasn't my first Heinlein, I'd read a few others including
>
Alberto wrote:
>
>
> "Cat" is the worst possible "First Heinlein" to read. It makes too
> many references to other books, it should be Heinlein's _last_.
Cat wasn't my first Heinlein, I'd read a few others including Stranger in a
Strange Land
Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> I'm sure a lot of you have read the Heinlein, but this was my first
> attempt since I threw The Cat who Walks through Walls across the room,
> unfinished, many years ago.
"Cat" is the worst possible "First Heinlein" to read. It mak
G. D. Akin wrote:
>
>Time Enough for Love
>
Did I mention that I made a timeline of Heinlein?
http://www.geocities.com/albmont/rah2.htm
>follows the exploits of 2000-year old Lazarus Long,
>first introduced in Methusela's Children. The book opens with Lazarus
>wantin
Jon Gabriel wrote:
>
>All accurate, except I think Lazarus was 4000+ years old.
>
2359. He was born on 1912-11-11, and the story begins somewhere
in 4272. But he wasn't 2359 _years_ old, because he cut some
of these years [about 70 of them] during _Methuselah's Children_.
Timeline Maniac Maru
From: "G. D. Akin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In?
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 15:49:29 +0900
Jim Sharkey wro
G. D. Akin wrote:
>Jim Sharkey wrote:
>> I got Time Enough for Love also. What's it about? I'm afraid my
>>Heinlein exposure has been minimal.
>And you call yourself a Science Fiction reader ;-)
I used to, but compared to many of the folks on this list, I'm c
Jim Sharkey wrote:
> I got Time Enough for Love also. What's it about? I'm afraid my Heinlein
exposure has been minimal.
And you call yourself a Science Fiction reader ;-)
Time Enough for Love follows the exploits of 2000-yea
At 05:58 PM 9/12/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Another one of those quizzes for everyone's categorization pleasure:
Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In?
http://quizilla.com/users/dunkelza/quizzes/Which%20Heinlein%20Book%20Should%20You%20Have%20Been%20A%20Character%20In%3F/
or
You belong in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. You value freedom above all
else. You would fight and die for your family and your home.
Doug
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From: "Jim Sharkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I got Time Enough for Love also. What's it about? I'm afraid my Heinlein
exposure has been minimal.
Time Enough For Love is from Heinlein's "Dirty Old Man" stage of his career.
From what I remember, it's
--- Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another one of those quizzes for everyone's
> categorization pleasure:
>
> Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character
> In?
>
http://quizilla.com/users/dunkelza/quizzes/Which%20Heinlein%20Book%20Should%20You%20Hav
I got Time Enough for Love also. What's it about? I'm afraid my Heinlein exposure
has been minimal.
Jim
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First pass:The Man Who Sold The Moon
Second:Cat Who Walks Through Walls (I just picked the first answer in
every category)
Of all the little personality quizzes we've taken, this is lamest.
George A
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You belong in the Cat Who Walks Through Walls. You are creative and cunning.
Your works often feel empty to you, though others love them. You suspect
that the universe and everyone in it are just characters in someone else's
story.
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Bryon Daly wrote:
>
> Another one of those quizzes for everyone's categorization pleasure:
>
> Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In?
Time Enough for Love.
Julia
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Bryon wrote:
Another one of those quizzes for everyone's categorization pleasure:
Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In?
http://quizilla.com/users/dunkelza/quizzes/Which%20Heinlein%20Book%20Should%20You%20Have%20Been%20A%20Character%20In%3F/
or
http://makeashorterlin
From: Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In?
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:37:30 -0700 (PDT)
--- Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECT
--- Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another one of those quizzes for everyone's categorization pleasure:
>
> Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In?
>
http://quizilla.com/users/dunkelza/quizzes/Which%20Heinlein%20Book%20Should%20You%20Have%20Been%
Another one of those quizzes for everyone's categorization pleasure:
Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In?
http://quizilla.com/users/dunkelza/quizzes/Which%20Heinlein%20Book%20Should%20You%20Have%20Been%20A%20Character%20In%3F/
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L100121A4
http://www.heinleinsociety.org/newsFUTL.html
"For those of us who thought there would never again be another new Heinlein
novel, the impossible has become reality . "For Us, the Living," is a brand
new, never before published novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It is going into
pr
Jan Coffey wrote:
>
>> Actually, they are Heinlein's words, and the full quote is:
>>
>> "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good
>> when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
>> -Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond the Horiz
Robert Seeberger wrote:
>
>>>> "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good
>>>> when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
>>>> -Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond the Horizon, 1942
>>
>> This statemente is totally f
--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Seeberger wrote:
> >
> >>>> "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good
> >>>> when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
> >>>> -Robert A. Hei
--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jan Coffey wrote:
> >
> >> Actually, they are Heinlein's words, and the full quote is:
> >>
> >> "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good
> >> when one may have
> I'm not claiming to agree with Heinlein, but I will note that people are
> very friendly in Texas and not so friendly in New York.
>
You'd better never not come back to New York no more and say that. We New
Yorkers don't take kindly to peoples what calls us unfriendly
Robert Seeberger wrote:
>
> I'm not claiming to agree with Heinlein, but I will note that people are
> very friendly in Texas and not so friendly in New York.
>
I think there are cultural differences between Texas and New York
besides just the gun ownership thing that
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On
> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Heinlein quote
>
> > I'm not claiming to agree with Heinlein, but I will note that people
are
>
--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Seeberger wrote:
> >
> > I'm not claiming to agree with Heinlein, but I will note that people are
> > very friendly in Texas and not so friendly in New York.
> >
>
> I think there are cul
--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jan Coffey wrote:
> >
> > --- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > And there are cultural differences between Texas and California, and
> the
> > > culture in Texas agreed with me a bit more when I visited both states
> on
> > > one
Jan Coffey wrote:
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> --- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > And there are cultural differences between Texas and California, and the
> > culture in Texas agreed with me a bit more when I visited both states on
> > one trip, and that's how I ended up going to school in Texas. (But
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Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Heinlein quote [was: Politics]
> Jan Coffey wrote:
> >
> >> Actually
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> > I'm not claiming to agree with Heinlein, but I will note that people are
> > very friendly in Texas an
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>
> --- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
Erik Reuter wrote:
> At the risk of ruining it, can you explain the joke? I know that "le" is
> and article for "the", but what is "le weekend"? I thought the French
> worked short weeks compared to Americans, so they would have at least as
> long a weekend as Americans.
The French adopted the te
On 16 Mar 2003 at 18:10, Han Tacoma wrote:
> On Sunday, March 16, 2003 8:10 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
>
> I realize that Rabbi Schorsch's views are his. While you don't
> indicate what you mean by "proportion" (i.e. a percentage), it seems
> to me that you are using the word as an implication -
On Sunday, March 16, 2003 8:10 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2003 at 22:59, Han Tacoma wrote:
>
> > My opinion is that the French have the same misgivings as the American
> > Jewish community has:
I retract my _generalization_ of the American Jewish Community in the
context that I used i
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:48:38AM -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
> specifically compared to Hussein, do the French really think the
> probability of the US attacking or subverting their country sometime in
> the future is greater than the dangers posed by Hussein? If they do assume
Culturally, probab
On 15 Mar 2003 at 22:59, Han Tacoma wrote:
> My opinion is that the French have the same misgivings as the American
> Jewish community has:
>
> | But some Jews are increasingly concerned about the lack of
> widespread | international support for a pre-emptive strike, and
> skeptical that the Unit
On Friday, March 14, 2003 10:38 AM, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> Robert Heinlein expressed the problem in a science fiction story in
> 1941, `Solution Unsatisfactory'. I will get to that in a moment.
>
> [...snip...]
>
> The question here is whether this French policy
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Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Heinlein and current international politics L3
> Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> >
>
Erik Reuter wrote:
At the risk of ruining it, can you explain the joke? I know that "le" is
and article for "the", but what is "le weekend"? I thought the French
worked short weeks compared to Americans, so they would have at least as
long a weekend as Americans.
The use of the word "weekend" rat
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:54:38PM +, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> ... do the French really think the probability of the US attacking
> or subverting their country sometime in the future is greater than
> the dangers posed by Hussein?
>
> That is not the question. The question is,
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:34:34PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
> From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Do you think many French reason this way? I can understand being
> > concerned about excessive American power in general. But when
> > specifically compared to Hussein, do the French really t
On 15 Mar 2003 at 19:54, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> ... do the French really think the probability of the US attacking
> or subverting their country sometime in the future is greater than
> the dangers posed by Hussein?
>
> That is not the question. The question is, for example, whe
... do the French really think the probability of the US attacking
or subverting their country sometime in the future is greater than
the dangers posed by Hussein?
That is not the question. The question is, for example, whether a US
government thinks it better that France workers bear
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> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:38:56PM +,
ely
to appear as a goad to America in the future). What likely future
situation would result in America taking such a position against FRANCE?
> The question here is whether this French policy is even worse than the
> `Solution Unsatisfactory' that Heinlein envisioned?
Seems that way.
Robert Heinlein expressed the problem in a science fiction story in
1941, `Solution Unsatisfactory'. I will get to that in a moment.
First, the `Jacksonian' tradition in the US.
On 13 Mar 2003, Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think part of the problem is that th
At 16:17 28-01-2003 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Veenema, who goes on trial next month, was quoted as saying he made
thousands of people happy before his business turned sour. He claims he
sold plots for around 1,500 euros ($1,600) each through the U.S.-based
firm Lunar Embassy.
Assuming for a mom
...with an unforeseen consequence.
:-)
Jon
Dutchman sold pieces of the moon
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jan. 28, 2003 | AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) --
For years, Rene Veenema says he made a small fortune selling real estate
plots on the moon. Now he's in jail, on Earth.
Veenem
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 07:07 PM, Steve Sloan II wrote:
Sigh...A very classy lady. She'll be missed. RIP.
john
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ssing grief, generally,
probably should be avoided so as not to clog all our mailboxes.
Mrs. Heinlein, however, actively supported the goals of this
group; and was always interested in and enjoyed receiving
news of its activities. The following was written by another
addressee of this group, Dr. R
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