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Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century by William H. Patterson

A two-volume look at a prominent 20th century SF author.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-state-of-things
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On 19/08/2025 08.07, James Nicoll wrote:

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century by William H. Patterson

A two-volume look at a prominent 20th century SF author.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-state-of-things

I love footnote 6!
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On 8/19/2025 8:07 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century by William H. Patterson

A two-volume look at a prominent 20th century SF author.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-state-of-things

Do you count "Grumbles From The Grave" by Virginia Heinlein as a
biography or an autobiography ?
https://www.amazon.com/Grumbles-Grave-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0345369416

I read this a long time ago but have a copy for rereading in my SBR some
day.

Lynn

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On 8/21/2025 1:08 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 19/08/2025 08.07, James Nicoll wrote:

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century by William H. Patterson

A two-volume look at a prominent 20th century SF author.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-state-of-things

I love footnote 6!

How many Heinlein biographies are there ?

Lynn

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On 8/21/25 2:08 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 19/08/2025 08.07, James Nicoll wrote:

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century by William H. Patterson

A two-volume look at a prominent 20th century SF author.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-state-of-things

I love footnote 6!

A good one indeed.

Many long-time posters here will remember that Mr Patterson was here in
rasfw for many years. I remember two things about that:
- he posted on a wide variety of topics
- he was mostly amiable, or at least neutral, except when it came to
anything related to Heinlein

Tony
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It was helpful to learn from the comments that Heinlein made the
forgivable error of confusing Iwo Jima with Saipan, rather than making up
a massacre that never happened out of whole cloth.

Definitely, though, the description given of this biography does indeed
show it to be flawed in the manner that James Nicoll indicates, despite
this minor oversight on his part.

That the other biographies of Heinlein of which he knows are, without exception, less than objective... is regrettable. But understandable,
given that Heinlein's political views make him a polarizing author. That
_and_ his great talent. Together, these lead to a situation where those
who don't find his politics unacceptable enough to loathe him end up
adulating him.

John Savard
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