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Moriarity at Ain’t It Cool News reviews the upcoming “Project Moonbase and Others:”

All in all, I’m probably more than a little bit biased about PROJECT MOONBASE. I guess it’s hard to be objective when you feel like you’ve found the equivalent of buried treasure. After more than 50 years, we have a side of Heinlein’s body of work that we’ll never glimpsed before, and—most shockingly of all—some of still holds up pretty damn well.

PROJECT MOONBASE AND OTHERS will be released July 28th.

I’ve read everthing OTHER than the title story about a dozen times. I’ll be buyign this one as soon at it comes out, though. Any unread Heinlein is a treasure to collected as soon as possible.

The news:

Author Robert Asprin died in his New Orleans home on Thursday at the age of 61. No cause of death has been announced.

“Bob passed away quietly in his home in New Orleans, LA. He has been in good spirits and working on several projects, and was set to be the Guest of Honor at a major science fiction convention that very week,” said his family in a statement.

Asprin is best know for his fantasy novels including ‘Myth Adventures of Aahz and Skeeve.’ He also co-wrote the ‘Time Scout’ novels with Linda Evans.

So, I’m flipping through channels last night, and I landed on TBS and they’re playing that God-awful movie.

The bugs are shooting plasma out of their asses at the orbiting starships. The captain of the Rodger Young issues this helpful order “Evasive maneuvers.”

One of many reasons to hate this movie.

But then, how many times did they use “attack pattern delta” or some such tripe in Star Trek?

Feh.

For those who don’t know, this blog started as a static Web site dedicated to refuting those who claimed Robert Heinlein was a fascist.

It’s easy to do, considering that “fascist!” is almost always a kneee-jerk reaction when liberals encounter anything more conservative than thay are. The idea that someone could write a book lookinn into a world in which military service is necessary to be considered a voting citizen fits that description.

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