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Is Life Worth Living in a Perfect Utopia?

Alienating the Audience

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Heinlein's the Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The opening line of this novel is in five years, the penis will be obsolete since the salesman. So yeah, because Heinlein really enjoyed putting sex in stories and he also played with the concept of sexual moories very much. My suspicion is that Varley shares a lot of Robert Heinlein's views on politics and how society should be done. But what he does that I think was a really interesting tactic is he'll basically explain the... misanthropic anti-stattest positions of Walter editor or of Smith, the head of the Heinlein society.

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