A new Heinlein book is due out in September!

[thewayne]

Apparently 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!

Comments

[ateji.livejournal.com]

Heinlein = one of those writers who went nuts in his old age and churned out stuff that fans of the early stuff don't tend to like. Check. I thought Herbert was the only one of that era. ;) Orson Scott Card's getting there.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since I've read Card. I LOVED the first two Ender books, and I read two more (perhaps the third, then the one that followed the small kid from the battle school, which I don't remember as being particularly good).

Currently my favs are Weber, Ringo, and Cory Doctrow, though Terry Pratchett will always pretty much be my #1 fav.