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Heinlein buff David Potter explained on alt.fan.heinlein, in a posting reprinted on the Heinlein Society, that the entire book is actually "one of the greatest textbooks on narrative fiction ever produced, with a truly magnificent set of examples of HOW NOT TO DO IT right there in the foreground, and constant explanations of how to do it right, with literary references to people and books that DID do it right, in the background."
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Cool, contemplative, plot-driven and grave.
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 511
- Publisher
- New English Library/Times Mirror, -penguin, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- heb, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9780575113039
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“"He's a Mad Scientist, and I'm his Beautiful Daughter."”
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science
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