What I want for Christmas: Bright Light and Lazarus Long…
I want a Synchrotron and a signed first edition of "Time Enough For Love".
I have no Idea what I will use the former for, but here is an example, in case I happen to fall into possession of an ancient text.
As for TEFL, if I have to explain it, you won't get it.
Merry Christmas
Very nice. A kindly reminder to categorize posts. I put this one under “history” but feel free to recategorize. No category means it doesn’t show in the category pages.
raison detre is also frequently guilty of this, but her posts are generally uncharacterizable so she’s excused.
Comment on November 29, 2006 @ 10:38 pm
Damn. No luck, Senrab. Close –
http://cgi.ebay.com/1st-HC-Time-Enough-for-Love-Heinlein-Great-Copy_W0QQitemZ8352017104QQihZ021QQcategoryZ377QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=603281813&searchurl=sgnd%3Don%26y%3D8%26kn%3Dtime%2Benough%2Bfor%2Blove%2Brobert%2Bheinlein%26x%3D5%26sortby%3D3
Comment on November 29, 2006 @ 11:25 pm
I used to be fairly tight with some folks in the Heinlein Society. They invited me to their annual dinner. They’d heard I’d raised $100K for the Mars Society and thought maybe I had a secret they could use to help cover some debts. That was my chance to ask about 1st edition signed copies of TEFL. Maybe I can dig up a number or two…
Comment on November 29, 2006 @ 11:33 pm
Were any Screeptural truths binding, RAH’s in a none-too-comfy section of the Malebolgia, like his one time partner in diablerie L-Ron; but then so are plenty of yankee generals (and german, russian, etc.), and…………..Werner VON BRAUN? Ja. On the other hand mebbe RAH was simply another clever but not overly eloquent monkey.
Comment on November 30, 2006 @ 12:22 am
‘He read the first series of Tom Swift books, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells.’
This is fun:
http://members.aol.com/agplusone/robert_a._heinlein_a_biogr.htm
Comment on November 30, 2006 @ 8:09 pm
Oh man!!!!
Nice book find! Silly me, I forgot about eBay. But $125 might be a bit much, as after all, it is the story that’s precious, and any edition will do!
Amazing cover art!!! ($8K – a bit out of my price range)
Did you find me a used Synchrotron?
Maybe my youngster will be the next RAH; I have acquired a complete set of Tom Swift Jr and HG Wells for him (need to track down the Burroghs and Verne).
Comment on November 30, 2006 @ 9:53 pm
I’ve always been amazed at the impression TEFL (and RAH of course) has made on you all. What a history you all have with this book.
I wonder if you all see this book/the many story lines etc. differently than you did say in 1973 or whenever you first read it? I imagine you probably read it when you all were maybe still figuring some things out. Now you are all grown and in a different place with your thinking (maybe – not to presume anything).
Trout Fishing in America or Portrait of a young artist is probably the first “book” I read. I simply can’t go back and read any of Brautigan. I can’t get through any of his work. (I realize that RAH and RB are nothing alike) I just don’t have the patience. I recently tried Portrait and again I couldn’t read more than 3 pages. I just really can’t read anything that I read at Pitt.
Oh well, family and work life has my undivided attention most of the time.
Comment on December 1, 2006 @ 6:05 pm
I’ve re-read Dune: First three books remain excellent, remaining 2 remain gratuitous.
I’ve reread Lord of the Rings Trilogy: If anything, greater impact now than when I read them in high school.
Must sadly admit I have not made time (enough) to re-read (or even catalog) the remaining sci-fi/fantasy icons of my youth.
While I fondly remember those tomes, I equally value the present (not to mention the future), and sci-fi has been kind to me, deliviering new and wonderful works on a regular basis.
In the meantime, though….
Comment on December 1, 2006 @ 8:38 pm
I can’t beleive my post said “amd” for these last few days!
Comment on December 1, 2006 @ 8:51 pm
More blasphemy. Where’d you find the Tom Swift? I’ve been looking forever. But I haven’t tried Ebay yet.
I’m reading Bear’s Forge Of God. Six months of Shakespeare and I’m ripping through sci-fi at a book every 72 hours.
Yes!
Comment on December 1, 2006 @ 10:31 pm
“Heinlein also brought to science fiction other degrees of serious purpose. He may have gotten out of practical politics, but he did not abandon his social and political liberalism. Embedded in his first suite of stories are themes quite unusual for a science fiction writer. Philosophical themes (particularly speculative metaphysics) were often combined together with cutting edge science fact and [12-13] speculation in an advanced “holistic” synthesis that included spiritual elements as well. Sometime between 1932 and 1938 Heinlein had encountered two unlikely and unalike philosophers who were to profoundly influence his writing: P.D. Ouspensky and Alfred Korzybski.”
Comment on December 2, 2006 @ 2:24 am