<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>I believe the politically correct accuse Wolfe likewise of being
      a christian misogynist. To compare Wolfe and Heinlein  in the ways
      they give expression to political ideas proves I think Wolfe the
      more subtle. I think Wolfe values self reliance but is aware of
      human limitation and evil. He is no ideologist as Heinlein might
      be considered though his ideas changed from left to right. Wolfe
      neither sanctifies the market nor the state and is critical of
      both. His books are not a direct and obtrusive mouthpiece for his
      faith.<br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 29-1-2020 om 13:50 schreef Norwood,
      Frederick Hudson:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:DM6PR07MB4508E62A5205C771CB52061482050@DM6PR07MB4508.namprd07.prod.outlook.com">
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
      <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered
        medium)">
      <style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
        {font-family:"Cambria Math";
        panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Calibri;
        panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Georgia;
        panose-1:2 4 5 2 5 4 5 2 3 3;}
@font-face
        {font-family:"Open Sans";
        panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
        {margin:0in;
        margin-bottom:.0001pt;
        font-size:12.0pt;
        font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:blue;
        text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:purple;
        text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
        {mso-style-type:personal;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
        color:#1F497D;}
span.EmailStyle18
        {mso-style-type:personal;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
        color:windowtext;}
span.EmailStyle20
        {mso-style-type:personal-reply;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
        color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
        {mso-style-type:export-only;
        font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
        {size:8.5in 11.0in;
        margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
        {page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
      <div class="WordSection1">
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">P.S.
            Sorry to have gone on so long about Heinlein. I mentioned
            Heinlein only in the context of Wolfe’s The Land Across. I’m
            sure there is a Heinlein thread for discussing Heinlein
            apart from Wolfe. Let’s go back to Wolfe.<br>
            <br>
            Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Rick
            Norwood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <div>
          <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1
            1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
                Urth [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net">mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net</a>]
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Norwood, Frederick Hudson<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 29, 2020 7:47 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> The Urth Mailing List
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net"><urth@lists.urth.net></a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: (urth) [EXTERNAL] Re: Heinlein's
                Universe and The Long Sun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          </div>
        </div>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’ve
            read Starship Troopers three times, but thank you for
            correcting my memory – that it was “government service”
            rather than “military service”. Just from memory, I thought
            all government service, including work on Pluto, was under
            the direction of the military. I’ll remember to look out for
            that next time I read the book.<br>
            <br>
            I also enjoy Farnham’s Freehold, which I’ve read twice. The
            childbirth scene is heartbreaking, and one of the best I’ve
            read. I do not agree that his goal was to show that atomic
            war would completely wipe out the kind of civilization we
            appreciate. The life on the Freehold seemed, in many ways
            ideal. “Free Kittens!”<br>
            <br>
            To what extent Heinlein’s Grand Old Man is unreliable,
            rather than a way for Heinlein to express his own ideas, is
            a source of endless debate, and both sides hold their own
            views pretty strongly. Clearly, you hold your views strongly
            enough to accuse me of prejudice, even though I said, very
            clearly, that I love Heinlein’s work. <br>
            <br>
            Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Rick
            Norwood  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
              style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
            Urth [<a href="mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net"
              moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net</a>]
            <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<br>
            <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:05 PM<br>
            <b>To:</b> The Urth Mailing List <<a
              href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net" moz-do-not-send="true">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>
            <b>Subject:</b> Re: (urth) [EXTERNAL] Re: Heinlein's
            Universe and The Long Sun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">I have a
                better question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Have <i>you</i> read
                <b><i>Starship Troopers</i></b>? Because you're making a
                false statement about it. "Only people who have served
                in the military can vote" - thanks for playing; come
                again. What is true is that those who have performed
                <i>some sort of government service</i> can vote. What is
                also true is that <i>most
                </i>of this is <i>not</i> military service - for
                example, there's the guy who goes to work in an
                observatory on Pluto. The idea here is that the vote has
                to be earned by showing that you are willing to serve
                the people whom your vote will help govern.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
                    style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Farnham's
                    Freehold</span></i></b><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"> is a
                failed novel. His goal was to show that atomic war would
                completely wipe out the kind of civilization we
                appreciate. As a side issue, he also wanted to show that
                race prejudice is bad by flipping it over and putting
                whites in the slave class. He screwed up by adding the
                cannibalism thing, making the whole book so flawed that
                it can't serve its intended purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
                    style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Stranger</span></i></b><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">? Jubal
                doesn't know what he's talking about there. It is
                strongly implied that Mike
                <i>does</i> have physical love with males as well as
                females. And there's strong evidence that Heinlein at
                least experimented with another man when he was young.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">You're
                reading through your prejudices; the received wisdom is
                that Heinlein was a fascist crank, and you're seeing
                what you expect to see.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dan'l
                Danehy-Oakes</span><span
                style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <div>
              <div>
                <div>
                  <div>
                    <div>
                      <div>
                        <div>
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <div>
                                <div>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                                </div>
                                <div>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span
                                        style="font-family:"Open
                                        Sans",serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt">Maka
                                        ki ecela tehani yanke lo!</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
                                </div>
                                <div>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span
                                        style="font-family:"Open
                                        Sans",serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt">--</span></em><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#545454">Tȟašúŋke
                                      Witkó</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                </div>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        </div>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 8:04 AM
              Norwood, Frederick Hudson <<a
                href="mailto:NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu"
                moz-do-not-send="true">NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu</a>>
              wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
          </div>
          <blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC
            1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in
6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
            <div>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Have
                    you read Starship Troopers? Only people who have
                    served in the military can vote. (Heinlein claims
                    that, in this world, it has been proved
                    mathematically that this is the best government.
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    I love Starship Troopers.  It’s one of my favorite
                    books. But it does glorify the military and, as
                    Heinlein got older, his politics got ever more
                    conservative. In Farnham’s Freehold the nice seeming
                    Black people turn out to  be cannibals. One area
                    where he did become more liberal was homosexuality.
                    In Stranger in a Strange Land Jubal Harshaw
                    expressed the view that Mike could never have sex
                    with another man. By Time Enough for Love, gay sex
                    is just fine. The story is that Theodore Sturgeon,
                    who Heinlein loved and admired, took Heinlein aside
                    and explained to him the facts of life.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Rick</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
                    Urth [mailto:<a
                      href="mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net"
                      target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">urth-bounces@lists.urth.net</a>]
                    <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<br>
                    <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:32 AM<br>
                    <b>To:</b> The Urth Mailing List <<a
                      href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net" target="_blank"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>
                    <b>Subject:</b> Re: (urth) [EXTERNAL] Re: Heinlein's
                    Universe and The Long Sun</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                <div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"
                      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                        style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">I
                        think it is safe to say that Heinlein
                        <i>never </i>"loved" or advocated a military
                        dictatorship. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"
                      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
                        style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  </div>
                  <div>
                    <div>
                      <div>
                        <div>
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <div>
                                <div>
                                  <div>
                                    <div>
                                      <div>
                                        <div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dan'l
                                                Danehy-Oakes<o:p></o:p></p>
                                            </div>
                                            <div>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                                            </div>
                                            <div>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><em><span
style="font-family:"Open
                                                    Sans",serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt">Maka
                                                    ki ecela tehani
                                                    yanke lo!</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
                                            </div>
                                            <div>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><em><span
style="font-family:"Open
                                                    Sans",serif;color:#3C3736;letter-spacing:.1pt">--</span></em><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#545454">Tȟašúŋke
                                                  Witkó</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                            </div>
                                          </div>
                                        </div>
                                      </div>
                                    </div>
                                  </div>
                                </div>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                    style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                </div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"
                  style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                <div>
                  <div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"
                      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On
                      Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 4:57 AM Norwood, Frederick
                      Hudson <<a href="mailto:NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu</a>>
                      wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
                  </div>
                  <blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid
                    #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in
6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                    <div>
                      <div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
                          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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”.<br>
                            <br>
                            Rick Norwood</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
                          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
                          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
                            Urth [mailto:<a
                              href="mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net"
                              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">urth-bounces@lists.urth.net</a>]
                            <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stephen Hoy<br>
                            <b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 27, 2020 4:47
                            PM<br>
                            <b>To:</b> The Urth Mailing List <<a
                              href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net"
                              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>
                            <b>Subject:</b> Re: (urth) [EXTERNAL] Re:
                            Heinlein's Universe and The Long Sun</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"
                          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                        <div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The
                              interesting bit about the<span
                                style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">-
                              Stephen <o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On
                                Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:21 AM Norwood,
                                Frederick Hudson <<a
                                  href="mailto:NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu"
                                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">NORWOODR@mail.etsu.edu</a>>
                                wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <blockquote
                              style="border:none;border-left:solid
                              #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in
6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                              <div>
                                <div>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Rick</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                                </div>
                              </div>
                            </blockquote>
                          </div>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"
                      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">_______________________________________________<br>
                      Urth Mailing List<br>
                      To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">urth@urth.net</a><br>
                      Subscription/information: <a
                        href="http://www.urth.net" target="_blank"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.urth.net</a><o:p></o:p></p>
                  </blockquote>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br>
              Urth Mailing List<br>
              To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net"
                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">urth@urth.net</a><br>
              Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net"
                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.urth.net</a><o:p></o:p></p>
          </blockquote>
        </div>
      </div>
      <br>
      <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset>
      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">_______________________________________________
Urth Mailing List
To post, write <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a>
Subscription/information: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a></pre>
    </blockquote>
  </body>
</html>