From Newsgroup: alt.fan.heinlein
On Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:51:41 -0500, Lynn McGuire
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lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
Does Heinlein's sixth column book have a hard date in it ?
Such as ten years after WWII ?
A quick borrow, from:
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59691W/Sixth_Column
and browse says "no, not really".
It *is* set after the WWII, and some time after the word "Soviet"
became a popular description of something so maybe 1970's?
That's a guess.
Remember, in the TV serial "U.F.O.", which was created in 1970-ish,
they had moonbases, Moon-to-Earth single-person fighting scouts, an artificially intelligent guardian satellite and other goodies. The
citizens of 1950 to about 1980 were extremely optimistic about the
growth of technologies. They didn't foresee the hampering effects of
Nixon, Microsoft, Apple and most governments. So the advanced
technologies aren't much of a clue.
J.
Lynn
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