‘Lost’ Heinlein?
27th February 2006
No, no, no. No one found a forgotten manuscript or outline (except the one Spider turned into a book).
But Entertainment Weekly is discussing a link between Heinlein and the hit television show Lost:
What we know about Dharma is incomplete at best, utterly bogus at worst. According to a choppy ”orientation film” found in the hatch, Dharma founders Gerald and Karen DeGroot established a research facility on the island in the 1970s to conduct experiments in meteorology, zoology, electromagnetism, psychology, and parapsychology — a dubious science that believes the brain houses mind-over-matter powers. (Think X-Men, Jedi Knights, and sci-fi author Robert Heinlein, whose 1941 short story Lost Legacy is about kids realizing their psychic potential under the tutelage of — COINCIDENCE ALERT! — Ambrose Bierce.) Our theory is that intentionally or not, the Dharma team pulled loose psychic powers from one of its test subjects — skip to No. 5 for the answer about who that might be — with disastrous results. How? With fear. Where? Where else, down in…
Hmmm … I’m going to have to reread LL tonight.
Hat tip: Michael Cassutt at alt.fan.heinlein.
[tags]lost,lost legacy,Ambrose Bierce[/tags]