Sam Jordison’s journey through the back catalog of Hugo Award winners has reached 1967 and Robert A. Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. You can read the review here. Sam is developing a distinct fascination with Heinlein. The overall impression I got from the review is that, as whacko Libertarian manifestos go, Moon, is right out there, but it is far, far better written than anything Ayn Rand has produced.
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Rand was selling The Truth. Heinlein, for all his “beer money” modesty/realism, was selling goads to make people think. Which only work on those willing, of course, but that’s other, longer, more emotional conversations.
If you are going to make the claim that Heinlein is far better than Rand, don’t you think it might help your case if you offered some standards by which you make such judgments? Without any, who are you to call anyone good, better, best or a whacko?
What is it about Libertarians that makes them incapable of distinguishing between a report of someone else’s opinions and an expression of personal opinion?
I have used the Acme Novel Standards Comparison and Tea Brewing Device to great success. I could quote the results I received of the Heinlein – Rand comparison but regretfully the End User License Agreement precludes that.
The tea, however, was quite nice.