heinleinblog

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.

Is Hollywood capable to doing an accurate representation of a Heinlein novel?

Leave Robert Heinlein Alone. Please stop making crappy as Starship Troopers Movies. Please quit bleeding the legacy of a perfectly good novel. Please, Just Leave Robert Heinlein Alone!

I dunno. Hollywood really mucked up “The Puppet Masters,” a novel I think would work really well as a mini-series. But that’s nothing considered the campy, poorly acted farce that was “Starship Troopers.”

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Yeah, it’s bad. But still more believable than Verhoxen’s movie.

Just for kicks, I typed “heinlein” into the search bar at YouTube.com and this was what I found:

The graphics are really cool. Too bad they don’t have hip television commercials for science fiction novels.

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