Stats for nerds
13recommend
23mentions
22people
2009–2025years
57% recommend43% neutral
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- I haven't read that, I'll look it up! <spoiler> Have you read By His Bootstraps and All You Zombies by Heinlein?
- The most unbounded recursive time travel paradox story has to be All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein. You can find it at https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a....
- Reminds me of my favorite time travel short story - Robert A. Heinlein's "All You Zombies"
https://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/works/shortstories/allyo...
https://archive.org/details/1959--AllYouZombies--Eley96k00.2...
- Have you ever read "All you zombies" by Heinlein? https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a...
- - The Men Who Folded Himself is a book about a time traveler that falls in love and has sex with himself in several distinct time periods.
- All You Zombies is a short story that makes use of one of the most ingenious and mind-bending time travel conundrums to reflect on the nature of personal identity.
- The Door Into Summer is about the effects of suspended animation on personal relationships.
- Anything written by Philip K. Dick.
- I think his views on nudity would have been the least offensive. Example..To Sail Beyond The Sunset was really weird and awkward in so many ways but at the same time, it is a book that I have read and re read many times. He certainly empowered many young female readers..but at the same time, there was also Friday which dealt with the difficult subject of rape. He was a feminist no doubt but he also had some antiquated ideas (like women’s role in society l and the glorification of procreation). He was a femininist without doubt.
My favourite wrt his treatment of gender is I Will Fear No Evil. Was he sci fi writer or writer of social commentary? He was a legit sci fiction writer and one of my favourites is All You Zombies where he deals with the paradox of time travel and ideas like when you are your own grandparent was definitely different. His juvenile series (Have Space Suit, Will Travel) were all benign enough for young kids without any ‘corrupting’ thought seeds and upsetting parents. His stories about parallel worlds and lives could be said to border on metaphysical. His all encompassing free love themes might have been scandalous and pornographic at his time altho it might merely invite eye rolling or nervous dry laughter now.(I don’t know..I can only imagine how it was in those times)
You are right about his contradictions but he had lived long enough to see waves of changes in society. (I might be wrong about the timeline of his various works pre and post 1950s) He was a military man and likely was always a libertarian. And likely an atheist. He was also from an entirely different era. But this theme was always to question authority and not accept what’s handed to you..and always strive for freedom as a personal goal. As a girl, that was important to me and to be able to place freedom over everything else.
