Today is #NationalScienceFictionDay. Influential best-selling sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein was a 1929 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who served aboard USS Lexington and USS Roper. A campaign to have a Zumwalt-class destroyer named in his honor was launched by his fans.
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Waterbeds.
Rational anarchy.
Autonomous driving/flying vehicles.
Railguns.
Multiculturism.
The Internet.
Grokking.
The man was a font of ideas.
Women are presented as being every bit as capable as men and this was witten in the 50s.
Media literacy FTW.
-- Mike
The Communist Manifesto
Das Kapital
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2
Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Wages, Price and Profit
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i didnt read this one and is a Nazi propaganda Too
[see Time Enough for Love]
She said she took a copy off her family’s bookshelf, then put it back “because it smelled like an old book.”
Can’t make that shit up
A wonderful writer, I could not stop reading his earlier works. My favorites are Citizen of the Galaxy, Starship Troopers, and his best, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
"Do you want to know more?"
Also, he told L. Ron Hubbard that the best way to get rich was to start a religion!