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Monthly Archives: December 2007

The unstoppable revenant of Robert A. Heinlein

Monday, December 17, 2007

In a truly excellent bit of synchronicity, Charles Stross, who I recently lavished praise upon, has written a wonderful little teaser concerning Robert A. Heinlein on a Peguin Group promotional blog. It appears under an ad for his excellent recent book, Halting State.
Stross describes his next book, “Saturn’s Children”, as a Heinlein tribute. He also [...]

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Reassessing Robert A. Heinlein

Monday, December 10, 2007

Popular and acclaimed SF writer John Scalzi has posted a spirited defence of Robert A. Heinlein on his website Whatever. This defence appears as a response several recent negative articles about the retrograde Heinlein as socio-political dinosaur (which are linked to from the Whatever item). I find Scalzi’s arguments convincingly stated and I agree with the premise that [...]

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British science fiction

Thursday, December 6, 2007

In this past Sunday Times (via Ed), Bryan Appleyard takes the British people to task for their disrespectful attitude to science fiction. This is an excellent little piece. Appleyard does a particularly good job of noting the ways in which science fiction has impacted both our culture and our science. His example of Wernher Von Braun’s [...]

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