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For Us, the Living was intriguing as a window into the development of Heinlein's radical ideas about man as a social animal, including his interest in free love. The root of many themes found in his later stories can be found in this book. It also contained much material that could be considered background for his other novels, including a detailed description of the protagonist's treatment to avoid being banned to Coventry (a lawless land in the Heinlein mythos where unrepentant law-breakers are exiled).[citation needed]
It appears that Heinlein at least attempted to live in a manner consistent with these ideals, even in the 1930s, and had an open relationship in his marriage to his second wife, Leslyn. He was also a nudist;[2] nudism and body taboos are frequently discussed in his work. At the height of the Cold War, he built a bomb shelter under his house, like the one featured in Farnham's Freehold.[2]
Heinlein's first novel published as a book, Rocket Ship Galileo, was initially rejected because going to the moon was considered too far out, but he soon found a publisher, Scribner's, that began publishing a Heinlein juvenile once a year for the Christmas season.[33] Eight of these books were illustrated by Clifford Geary in a distinctive white-on-black scratchboard style.[34] Some representative novels of this type are Have Space Suit—Will Travel, Farmer in the Sky, and Starman Jones. Many of these were first published in serial form under other titles, e.g., Farmer in the Sky was published as Satellite Scout in the Boy Scout magazine Boys' Life. There has been speculation that Heinlein's intense obsession with his privacy was due at least in part to the apparent contradiction between his unconventional private life and his career as an author of books for children, but For Us, The Living also explicitly discusses the political importance Heinlein attached to privacy as a matter of principle.[35]
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I was just watching on SCIHD Channel the "Prophets of Science Fiction:Robert Heinlein" program and so was inspired to write this about him. I think of all the authors I read from 1958 when I was 10 until I was about 15, he was the author I could relate to the most likely because my father was a Libertarian in his thinking too. Even his propensity for nudity and even "Free Love" interested my generation many of which became beatniks, surfers and Hippies during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These progressive thoughts he wrote about and took into space helped many people better relate to "Star Trek" on TV that had a cult following in places like CAL Tech in Pasadena and MIT on the East Coast which started on TV in 1964.
Other authors that inspired science students worldwide were Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. Eventually in 1977 we all had our breaths taken away by George Lucas with Star Wars with the original movie too.
With Authors like Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clark and George Lucas we had authors that went beyond fantasy to science fact and theoretical science. By going in this direction it allowed young scientists in every field to have example and directions to move in towards the future in all fields of science and progress. So, today we need more authors to envision the future with science facts and theoretical science to create a better future for everyone.
However, technology is always both a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. We need people who will use it to benefit all life on earth and beyond instead of just causing havoc for most with it.
Note: However, what I write I don't consider Science Fiction. Instead I am writing as an adept, a precognitive psychic and directly through my experiences in Life. So, I'm sort of taking all this to a completely new level. If you are an intuitive capable of Soul Travel you might better understand what I'm writing about because however you look at what I write about in my online book I call "Memories" it is not fiction but rather past life memories of the past, present and future.
You have the right to believe or disbelieve these legendary accounts of past lives from the past, present and future, but for me it is only experiences I have already had in the past, present and future.
You might ask, "How can one have memories of a time that hasn't happened yet?" I actually agreed with you about that until I was dying in 1999 and realized fully that souls separate from bodies don't live permanently in any one time or space. At this point I realized that a soul can incarnate in any time and space anywhere in the universe or beyond. Though this seemed kind of confusing to me at the time I also realized that souls, just like physical people tend to gravitate to what interests them or what they need to learn in life no matter what time or space it is in. So, it all makes sense to me now after thinking about it the last 15 years or so.
If you are interested in reading about my past, present and future life experiences already experienced by me here are some of them:
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