<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">By a random coincidence, I was just thinking this very thought the other day about Haldeman's The Forever War and Heinlein's Starship Troopers.<br><br>Yes, there is a mixed dystopian/utopian libertarian feel to Home Fires (mostly dyst, but great for rich people) that is Heinleinian, not to mention the largely unexplained---and unjustified by the narrator---war with the Os. One thing that nagged me about HF is the way the war is simply taken for granted as a war like any old "land war in Asia." <br><br>(I'm now a sophisticated enough reader of SF to imagine any real interstellar war as largely a matter for engineers/scientists (especially robotics), not soldiers or even pilots. But no mere political excuse for a war could possibly survive long enough for an attacking starship to reach its destination. Not even Athens' war with Syracuse could
serve as a model, let alone WW2, Korea, or Vietnam. Perpetual interspecies extermination might justify it, but only if both species desperately need the same resources in a vast universe, in which case any fighting for resources would probably be far more wasteful than simple competitive resource extraction. <br><br>Then again, I just saw Europa Report, which is fantastic if flawed, so my hopes are raised for more hard SF films in the future.)<br><br>Brian, are you thinking in particular of Lazarus Long?<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
<danldo@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 12, 2013 11:13 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Home Fires: Wolfe doing Heinlein?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv9221594297"><div dir="ltr">I didn't feel that at the time, but looking back at it, yeah, I think so.</div><div class="yiv9221594297gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="yiv9221594297gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Brian Doherty <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:brianmdoherty@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:brianmdoherty@gmail.com">brianmdoherty@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv9221594297gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Don't know if this is either an overdone or an absurd observation, but did anyone else feel that the character/scenario/tone of Home Fires (I'm only about 130 pages in) feels like a Wolfean take on Heinleinian themes/characters/situations?<span class="yiv9221594297HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>Brian Doherty</div>
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