Modern Classic: Stranger in a Strange Land!

I came across this video not long after it was made and was bowled over by how well, how precisely and how wittily you explained what an extremely weird, bizarre and above all unpleasant book it is and what an obnoxious, arrogant arse Heinlein was. I found it again once or twice over the last few years but I am so glad now to have made a point of identifying the producer and supporting you on Patreon. Now that I have the video in my digital hands, I am sharing it whenever I come across one of the Heinlein Home guard zealously defending his indefensible reputation. If you ever revisit him, be sure to see that not only are his ideas and philosophy garbage of the highest order, he is also a terrible writer and has the sleazy, libertarian interest in barely adolescent girls. He is, as we say in Dublin, a durty-looking durtburd.

I respect your review, but this was only one of multitudinous works by R.A.H. I hope you’ll take the time to read https://www.heinleinsociety.org/2013/02/rah-rah-r-a-h-by-spider-robinson/ , a 1980 essay by another science fiction writer, Spider Robinson.

Hey Chris Hanson -- this wasn't JUST to annoy Elron. It was also to mess with Ted Sturgeon, who committed the Heinleinian sin of being intelligent, a good sci fi writer, and a Mormon all at the same time. Because, like many science fiction nerds even today, the idea that someone can be intelligent and still have a religion is an abomination unto Science or something. Anyway, that's why the Fosterite church has many similarities to Mormonism, and the World Church has some kick-back to how Scientology was designed to work. Also, yeah, Heinlein had a stroke that temporarily knocked out his later memories, and thought the book was utter crap until he recovered.

I think heinlein is an author who is your crazy uncle that goes on long tangents forget what he’s talking about and then decides to read a porn mag all afternoon thinking he’s a genius

LOVED the review! I was surprised there wasn’t any mention of Heinlein’s supposed bet with L. Ron Hubbard as to whose made-up science fiction religion would get the most adherents… (And yes, there *is* a “Church of All Worlds” out there.)

I love this video, but I absolutely hate this book. I am not sorry. And Red shouldn't be either; your sassiness is entirely justified.

Ah Heinlein, I swear the man was a troll of an author who loved creating controversial topics for the fun of it.

Red, thank you for reviewing it, and you have nothing you need apologize for. Your sassy take was exactly what I expected, and this book is weird. This was great.

*runs channel called "Overly Sarcastic Productions"*; "Sorry for being so sassy" This was pure gold.

Wow, in case you forgot some stories are just the author having a power-trip with their worldviews.

That was a GREAT song choice for the end! :D also Heinlein was weird >.>