[from occupied ga]

If I learned anything from reading Heinlein, I learned the importance of controlling the high ground....

Heinlein wrote FICTION. If you learned anything from him it should be how to write.

[ari-freedom]

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Eepsy]

The buggy rolled silently down the ramp. The debris was almost nonexistent at the sixth level, but Lin still found herself stopping every few hundred yards to pick up another body. The cart wasn’t filling up as fast as it had in her first shift. At this rate it would be a full cycle before she could return to her bunk.

At least she no longer recognized any faces.

Lin thought about her little compartment on level two. It had been older, with no personal kitch or bath, but so much larger than the lower level models that forsook all space for privacy. She had had her fill of privacy working the stacks and relished the bustle of the public spaces, the amity of shared meals, and, above all, the ability to stretch out flat and wide on a proper bed. It was all behind the lock, now. THEY were all behind the lock. God only knew what was sleeping in her bed now.

[Lady Lucky]

Heinlein wrote FICTION.

I've never read the very popular and widely beloved Heinlein, but at least I know that good fiction is never just fiction. It delivers truth, as opposed to fact. Indeed, truth can be much clearer in fiction than in fact.

[bert]

I suspect that when it comes to Heinlein, you are illiterate and not really able to comment in a creditable manner. That would mean your post is drivelous blather that costs bandwidth

[W. W. SMITH]

See post #80

[Jagermonster]

GA, you should read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and read it in conjunction with this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment. It provides a very good explanation of just how important holding that particular high ground is.

[messierhunter]

“Heinlein wrote FICTION.”

So did Jules Verne.