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I refute Mr. Patterson’s biographical exercise of one of the most gifted writers of Science Fiction known!

I have in my possession a copy of Robert A. Heinlein’s, “Expanded Universe”, published in 1980. It includes the man’s very own words about the heirs of Patrick Henry, pragmatic patriotism, the first literary piece that would be found in today’s “prepper publications”, and his trip to the Soviet Union - as measured from an American citizen’s viewpoint, for contrast.

There is a large leap, from being a fan, to concocting a biography, on a deceased literary figure.

In the case with writing about Mr. Heinlein, if one should be of the generation born as of, or after The Fall of The Berlin Wall, there is a complete shift in the psyche, that, I believe, cannot be bridged. There is also the internal appreciation, that only present and former military members can fathom, when they read his particular writings, that those who have not served, nor desire to appreciate the U.S. military ‘community’, cannot.