(urth) [EXTERNAL] Re: Heinlein's Universe and The Long Sun

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

I think it is safe to say that Heinlein *never *"loved" or advocated a
military dictatorship.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

*Maka ki ecela tehani yanke lo!*
*--*Tȟašúŋke Witkó


On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 4:57 AM Norwood, Frederick Hudson <
NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> wrote:

> Other Heinlein parallels/satires in The Land Across: Grafton is Heinlein’s
> classic “man who learns better” turned inside out. What Grafton learns is
> what Heinlein “learned” in his long career. Heinlein, like Grafton, starts
> out as a liberal, (who like Heinlein, loves travel) and “learns” to love a
> military dictatorship, with a mysterious Hitler-like dictator serving as
> Heinlein’s “grand old man”.
>
> Rick Norwood
>
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> *From:* Urth [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] *On Behalf Of *Stephen
> Hoy
> *Sent:* Monday, January 27, 2020 4:47 PM
> *To:* The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
> *Subject:* Re: (urth) [EXTERNAL] Re: Heinlein's Universe and The Long Sun
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>
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> Appreciating the Heinlein connections noted by Gem and Gerry; a reminder
> that RAH is still relevant in the 21st century, as Christopher Nuttall
> might put it.
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>
> The interesting bit about the conveyor belt roads of Heinlein's The Roads
> Must Roll is that it has a precedent, and a much better fit with TLA, in
> H.G.Wells' When the Sleeper Awakens (1899). Wells' title recalls a
> noticeable sentence in TLA Chapter One "Now it seems to me that I must have
> been asleep a long time before I got into bed" followed by several
> "awakenings" throughout TLA.
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> Note that Wells and Wolfe each relate the struggle of a potential ruler of
> a dystopian society who gets caught up in a struggle between opposing
> factions. I don't think the parallels go much beyond this. It's a lot like
> Wolfe's choice of Baskin-Robbins as an allusion to Andromeda (Messier-31
> Flavors) in An Evil Guest, or the allusion to Boris Badenov in a
> conversation at a cafe in TLA, "I don't trust that conductor. Why is he so
> short?" to draw attention to Papa Zenon's lack of stature.
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> Aramini's Black-Red-White trichotomy helps us think about a lot of TLA's
> mysteries, although I suspect there is a lot of cloning going on along with
> the imprinting of personalities. Imprinting is found in Home Fires, TLA, A
> Borrowed Man. There's cloning/imprinting of some sort in A Borrowed Man,
> and I think something similar is happening in The Land Across.
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> - Stephen
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> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:21 AM Norwood, Frederick Hudson <
> NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Another Wolfe novel, The Land Across, is, I think strongly influenced by
> Heinlein, and essentially a satire of Heinlein. This is just my opinion,
> I’ve never heard anyone else say this. But the Rolling Roads early in the
> novel, which play no other part in the plot, I take as a hint.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Rick
>
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