Books
By
Oliver Johnson
Few science fiction writers have divided opinion so widely as Robert A. Heinlein. Along with Asimov and Clarke, he was one of the trio of Golden Age authors who in the 40s took the genre out of the pulp arena into one of literary high seriousness. Of the trio, many see Heinlein as the most influential as his novels about future worlds were free of jargon and written in a colloquially familiar manner. Of this three-way pantheon, Heinlein stands as the ‘dean of science fiction’ probably because of the prescriptive nature of much of his writing from the middle period onwards, in which father figures take the heroes of each book in hand and guide their spiritual and political evolution.
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