—Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100 (1953)
Heinlein was not “just” a writer: in 1980 he was a member of the Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy, which met at the home of writer Larry Niven to write space policy papers for the incoming Reagan Administration. The chair: Jerry Pournelle. His published works, both fiction and non-fiction, express admiration for competence, and emphasize the value of critical thinking.
Illustration: Heinlein’s portrait from the April-May 1953 issue of Amazing Stories (unknown artist).
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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.
Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!
Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc
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