“...Heinlein’s two most famous novels are Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land. The first challenges the orthodoxy of the Left as much as the second does that of the Right. But in his day, few science fiction readers were offended by his or anyone’s ideas. Science fiction was proud to be a literature of the new and startling. A spirit of intellectual fearlessness was paramount.
A darker time followed. The lamps of the intellect were put out one by one, first in society at large, then in literature, then in our little corner called science fiction. What we have now instead is a smothering fog of caution, of silence, of an unwillingness to speak for fear of offending the perpetually hypersensitive.
Science fiction is under the control of the thought police. The chains are invisible, but real. For a genre that glories in counting George Orwell as one of its own, this is ironic, to say the least.”
—John C. Wright, from here:
http://www.intercollegiatereview.com/index.php/2014/05/07/heinlein-hugos-and-hogwash/
Pretty good article, points out that Heinlein couldn’t win a Hugo today. Have to think that a lot of the supposed classics of literature wouldn’t cut it either if they came out now.
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