Comments for The Heinlein Society http://www.heinleinsociety.org An organization dedicated to Paying It Forward Fri, 10 May 2013 18:26:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on My Virginia Edition Arrived! by Deb Houdek Rule http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2012/10/my-virginia-edition-arrived/#comment-227 Deb Houdek Rule Fri, 10 May 2013 18:26:53 +0000 http://www.heinleinsociety.org/?p=1165#comment-227 Thank you for saying so, Neil. You're going to love the Virgina Edition! Thank you for saying so, Neil. You’re going to love the Virgina Edition!

]]> Comment on Remembering Robert Heinlein, 25 Years Later by Thinker http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2013/05/heinlein-25-years/#comment-223 Thinker Thu, 09 May 2013 02:53:00 +0000 http://www.heinleinsociety.org/?p=3144#comment-223 Deb - This is beautiful and a wonderful way to honor Heinlein on the 25th year after his passing. Thank you very much for your support of 'paying it forward' and the six activities you described above. Deb – This is beautiful and a wonderful way to honor Heinlein on the 25th year after his passing. Thank you very much for your support of ‘paying it forward’ and the six activities you described above.

]]> Comment on My Virginia Edition Arrived! by Neil Shapiro http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2012/10/my-virginia-edition-arrived/#comment-212 Neil Shapiro Tue, 07 May 2013 16:36:10 +0000 http://www.heinleinsociety.org/?p=1165#comment-212 Thanks so much for this article, it was the clincher for me and I ordered the Virginia Edition. Delivery was surprisingly prompt and the unboxing was just about as you indicated here. The books look wonderful; on my shelves. I wish I could add a photo but they are between a shelf with an Oxford Collected Mark Twain and one with the latest Folio Society's leather-bound Charles Dickens. I hope RAH would approve of the placement! The only thing I would add to your review is that the books actually look and feel better than they photograph! The leather binding is very nicely done and makes each book a joy to hold and read. The gilt spines and the little icons on the covers are very nice touches. The ribbon markers are high quality and I don't think they will split and unravel with usage as I have seen happen with less sturdy fabrics. Well, I still have 43 volumes to read, thanks again! (By the way are there any active Forums these days where I might find others who have bought or are interested in this edition? The Nexus Forum seems a bit empty...) Thanks so much for this article, it was the clincher for me and I ordered the Virginia Edition. Delivery was surprisingly prompt and the unboxing was just about as you indicated here. The books look wonderful; on my shelves. I wish I could add a photo but they are between a shelf with an Oxford Collected Mark Twain and one with the latest Folio Society’s leather-bound Charles Dickens. I hope RAH would approve of the placement!

The only thing I would add to your review is that the books actually look and feel better than they photograph! The leather binding is very nicely done and makes each book a joy to hold and read. The gilt spines and the little icons on the covers are very nice touches. The ribbon markers are high quality and I don’t think they will split and unravel with usage as I have seen happen with less sturdy fabrics.

Well, I still have 43 volumes to read, thanks again!

(By the way are there any active Forums these days where I might find others who have bought or are interested in this edition? The Nexus Forum seems a bit empty…)

]]> Comment on Robert Heinlein Remembered by L. Neil Smith by itslarry http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2013/02/robert-heinlein-remembered-by-l-neil-smith-2/#comment-48 itslarry Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:09:11 +0000 http://www.heinleinsociety.org/?p=1644#comment-48 Strangely enough as a young man growing up in Philadelphia it was Mr. Heinlein’s “adventure novels” that guided me through adolescence, through college, and into a world where decisions had consequences… and today I find that my ‘Door into Summer’ is composed of those lessons so unceremoniously “taught” by Woodrow Wilson Smith (aka Lazarus Long), Professor Bernardo de la Paz, Juan Rico, Wyoming Knott (Wyoh), Hazel Meade Stone and Mycroft "Mike" Holmes. Strangely enough as a young man growing up in Philadelphia it was Mr. Heinlein’s “adventure novels” that guided me through adolescence, through college, and into a world where decisions had consequences… and today I find that my ‘Door into Summer’ is composed of those lessons so unceremoniously “taught” by Woodrow Wilson Smith (aka Lazarus Long), Professor Bernardo de la Paz, Juan Rico, Wyoming Knott (Wyoh), Hazel Meade Stone and Mycroft “Mike” Holmes.

]]> Comment on Encountering the Heinleins by Michael Cassutt by sandycee http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2011/08/encountering-the-heinleins/#comment-41 sandycee Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:35:52 +0000 http://www.heinleinsociety.org/?p=358#comment-41 I am a very new reader to RAH books. Reading this story has just given me reason to continue to read the many of his books which were gifted to us by a friend. Thank you for your very wonderful story. You have given me a small insight into an author, I am hoping to call a favourite. A pity about the Red Cross blood drive, though any blood contribution is better than none. Namaste I am a very new reader to RAH books. Reading this story has just given me reason to continue to read the many of his books which were gifted to us by a friend. Thank you for your very wonderful story. You have given me a small insight into an author, I am hoping to call a favourite. A pity about the Red Cross blood drive, though any blood contribution is better than none.
Namaste

]]> Comment on Prophets of Science Fiction – About the Production by MoonliteSonata http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2012/02/prophets-of-science-fiction/#comment-11 MoonliteSonata Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:12:34 +0000 http://www.heinleinsociety.org/?p=808#comment-11 I watched the repeat of "Prophets of Science Fiction" about Heinlein, tonight. I went from disappointment and dismay to outright disgust and disdain as the hour progressed. Since when is discharge from military service for medical reasons deemed a career "failure"? I have seldom seen such blatant disregard for real content and meaning within a body of work in my life as was shown in "Prophets of Science Fiction". Ridley Scott should be ashamed to have his name attached to so much crap crammed into an hour. Heinlein was not afraid of nuclear war.. he was afraid of stupid people using nuclear technologies ("the Long Watch" is the best example of this real fear). The primary science in the novel "Friday" wasn't the internet or credit cards- it was cloning, invitro and other methods of creating human life, and the morality questions surrounding such technology and the possible misuse of it to create slaves by denying their humanity. In "the Moon is a Harsh Mistress", there were no surface habitats- it was a corridor culture,- so why was any time spent in discussion of what NASA is attempting to develop in this regard? And while the moon colony may have been originally peopled with criminals, the people there lived as free persons, except when it came to official commerce. They didn't mention his juvenile novels at all, nor did they mention anything of Lazarus Long and the novels that featured him and his family, nor any of the sciences discussed in those later books, such as "Number of the Beast" and non-euclidean geometry, the concept of multiple universes, and vehicles capable of both road and air travel. And don't even get me started on the errors, misconceptions, convenient gaps and/or flat out lies they told about "Starship Troopers" and "Stranger in a Strange Land". Heinlein was indeed a libertarian, not a fascist. He believed in personal freedom, when coupled with ABSOLUTE personal responsibility. I have never seen a program this badly done in a very very long time. I could have done better in half an hour than the producers managed in an hour, and my version would have been a lot more accurate. I watched the repeat of “Prophets of Science Fiction” about Heinlein, tonight. I went from disappointment and dismay to outright disgust and disdain as the hour progressed.
Since when is discharge from military service for medical reasons deemed a career “failure”?
I have seldom seen such blatant disregard for real content and meaning within a body of work in my life as was shown in “Prophets of Science Fiction”. Ridley Scott should be ashamed to have his name attached to so much crap crammed into an hour.
Heinlein was not afraid of nuclear war.. he was afraid of stupid people using nuclear technologies (“the Long Watch” is the best example of this real fear). The primary science in the novel “Friday” wasn’t the internet or credit cards- it was cloning, invitro and other methods of creating human life, and the morality questions surrounding such technology and the possible misuse of it to create slaves by denying their humanity. In “the Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, there were no surface habitats- it was a corridor culture,- so why was any time spent in discussion of what NASA is attempting to develop in this regard? And while the moon colony may have been originally peopled with criminals, the people there lived as free persons, except when it came to official commerce.
They didn’t mention his juvenile novels at all, nor did they mention anything of Lazarus Long and the novels that featured him and his family, nor any of the sciences discussed in those later books, such as “Number of the Beast” and non-euclidean geometry, the concept of multiple universes, and vehicles capable of both road and air travel.
And don’t even get me started on the errors, misconceptions, convenient gaps and/or flat out lies they told about “Starship Troopers” and “Stranger in a Strange Land”.
Heinlein was indeed a libertarian, not a fascist. He believed in personal freedom, when coupled with ABSOLUTE personal responsibility.
I have never seen a program this badly done in a very very long time. I could have done better in half an hour than the producers managed in an hour, and my version would have been a lot more accurate.

]]> Comment on Prophets of Science Fiction: Reviewed by “Thinker” by Deb Houdek Rule http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2012/03/prophets-thinker/#comment-8 Deb Houdek Rule Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:24:38 +0000 http://www.heinleinsociety.org/?p=896#comment-8 BTW, the photos you download from the online Heinlein Archives won't be as pretty as those on the television program. They will be lower resolution and will have a visual watermark across them, but there is still a treasure awaiting you there. My personal favorite is <a href="http://www.heinleinarchives.net/upload/index.php?_a=viewCat&catId=90" rel="nofollow">First Album: Scrapbook and Early Photos</a>. BTW, the photos you download from the online Heinlein Archives won’t be as pretty as those on the television program. They will be lower resolution and will have a visual watermark across them, but there is still a treasure awaiting you there. My personal favorite is First Album: Scrapbook and Early Photos.

]]> Comment on Prophets of Science Fiction: Reviewed by “Thinker” by Deb Houdek Rule http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2012/03/prophets-thinker/#comment-7 Deb Houdek Rule Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:21:34 +0000 http://www.heinleinsociety.org/?p=896#comment-7 You can see Heinlein's Annapolis Lucky Bag yearbook photos here on the Heinlein Society site here. <a href="http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2004/03/robert-and-rex-ivar/" rel="nofollow">Robert and Rex Ivar Heinlein at Annapolis</a> You can see a <a href="http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/history/bonnydoon1.html" rel="nofollow">Photo Tour of Bonny Doon</a> on the old Heinlein Society site--it's part of some content we haven't gotten converted over to this new site yet. The main source for photos, though--and it's open to the public!--is the <a href="http://www.heinleinarchives.net/upload/index.php" rel="nofollow">online Heinlein Archives</a>. This site lets you download any of 200,000 pages of the Heinleins' documents, manuscripts, photos and collection for a nominal fee. The online Heinlein Archives was created by <a href="http://www.heinleinprize.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Heinlein Prize Trust</a>, Heinlein's main literary estate, to give everyone full access to Heinlein. Though some of us at the Heinlein Society--me (Deb Houdek Rule) and Geo Rule are closely connected with the online Heinlein Archives, it is <i>not</i> a project of the Heinlein Society and the Heinlein Society has no control over the Archives. There's an article introducing the online Heinlein Archives in the Winter 2012 Heinlein Society Newsletter. You can see Heinlein’s Annapolis Lucky Bag yearbook photos here on the Heinlein Society site here. Robert and Rex Ivar Heinlein at Annapolis

You can see a Photo Tour of Bonny Doon on the old Heinlein Society site–it’s part of some content we haven’t gotten converted over to this new site yet.

The main source for photos, though–and it’s open to the public!–is the online Heinlein Archives. This site lets you download any of 200,000 pages of the Heinleins’ documents, manuscripts, photos and collection for a nominal fee. The online Heinlein Archives was created by The Heinlein Prize Trust, Heinlein’s main literary estate, to give everyone full access to Heinlein.

Though some of us at the Heinlein Society–me (Deb Houdek Rule) and Geo Rule are closely connected with the online Heinlein Archives, it is not a project of the Heinlein Society and the Heinlein Society has no control over the Archives. There’s an article introducing the online Heinlein Archives in the Winter 2012 Heinlein Society Newsletter.

]]> Comment on Prophets of Science Fiction – About the Production by Prophets of Science Fiction | Deb Houdek Rule | D A Houdek http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2012/02/prophets-of-science-fiction/#comment-5 Prophets of Science Fiction | Deb Houdek Rule | D A Houdek Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:25:04 +0000 http://www.heinleinsociety.org/?p=808#comment-5 [...] can read more about the program on the Heinlein Society website in an article I [...] [...] can read more about the program on the Heinlein Society website in an article I [...]

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