@deinol there is a quote somewhere from Heinlein in one of his commentaries like: "we will stop wasting oil by burning it, because it is too valuable for fertiliser" (I'm pretty sure it was fertiliser)
"Commissioner, Interplanetary Alloys has used figures like that in their campaign against Hilder, but you can't fight a tremendous, emotion-filled drive with cold mathematics.” —Asimov, The Martian Way, 1952
Today in Writing History July 7, 1907: Robert Heinlein was born. Heinlein was a pioneer of “hard” science fiction, which emphasized scientific accuracy in science fiction stories. He was considered one of the big 3, along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. Some of his best-known works include “Starship Troopers,” “Stranger in a Strange Land,” and “The Moon is a Hard Mistress.”
@MikeDunnAuthor@bookstadon
I seem to remember that in “Harsh Mistress” the tough-as-nails Moon citizens took their enemies and flushed them out an airlock. Heinlein’s version of defenestrating the opposition. Something we might keep in mind, eh?
@MikeDunnAuthor@bookstadon
"Next time you pick up a Heinlein book think of the author as looking a bit like General Eisenhower or, if that image isn't immediate enough, some chap in early middleage, good-looking in a slightly soft way, with silver at the temples, a blue tie, a sober three-pieced suit, telling you with a quiet smile that Margaret Thatcher cares for individualism and opportunity above all things, as passionately in her way as you do in yours. And then you might have some idea of what you're actually about to read." -Michael Moorcock https://libcom.org/article/starship-stormtroopers-michael-moorcock