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thewayneApparently he started it, set it aside for other projects, then died. His estate contacted Spider Robinson, and Spider has finished it! Spider's a very good writer, though I haven't read much by him of late, I'm confident that he did a very good job. Quoth the article: "the novel is based on the notes and outline created by Heinlein for the novel over 50 years ago". So hopefully this is more early/mid-career and not the late stage of his career, or as I like to refer to it, his Dirty Old Man phase.
I have no problem with sex in books, but I just didn't care for it when Heinlein included it. Though it's been a while, I think that now I wouldn't consider it erotic enough. (Though I recently read an amazingly erotic scene in Cory Doctrow's Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town: the main character meets a woman with wings...)
Anyway, info on the book is here: http://variablestarbook.com/, and the ever-present Slashdot thread is here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/29/1746219. The cool thing is that you can download the first eight chapters!
I have no problem with sex in books, but I just didn't care for it when Heinlein included it. Though it's been a while, I think that now I wouldn't consider it erotic enough. (Though I recently read an amazingly erotic scene in Cory Doctrow's Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town: the main character meets a woman with wings...)
Anyway, info on the book is here: http://variablestarbook.com/, and the ever-present Slashdot thread is here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/29/1746219. The cool thing is that you can download the first eight chapters!
