I Will Fear No Evil

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1. plasticchrisAug 2019
   Left hand of darkness was published in 69, highly recommended.

   Also heinlein? Look at I will fear no evil...

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2. methouApr 2019
   I believe now it's a very good time to reread the book I will fear no evil by Robert A. Heinlein.
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3. jelliclesfarmFeb 2019
   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.

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4. antelanNov 2017
   Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" is a mind-bending read on transgenderism.

   The quality of this article is just terrible, is the author not aware that Nazi super scientist's new employers after the war weren't corporations but the US government?

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5. foxyvJan 2021
   This reminds me of "I will Fear No Evil" by Robert A Heinlein. The billionaire with a brain transplant into his secretary remarked something along the lines of "Once you get rich enough you can't help making more money than you can spend."

   It seems from a distance, Elon tried to spend all his money on a Mars exploration, solar power, and to force automakers to start building electric cars. But then he just made more money. I can only imagine how rich he'll be after Starlink gets going in earnest.

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6. dmos62Apr 2019
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Fear_No_Evil

   SPOILER:

   Last paragraph of the plot summary. I found this paragraph particularly nutty (not necessarily in a bad way):

   > Joan marries her lawyer, Jake Salomon, and moves her household and friends onto a boat. Jake has a massive rupture of a large blood vessel in his brain and dies, but his personality is saved and joins Smith and Eunice in Joan's head. She (Joan, Eunice and Jake) immigrates to the Moon to find a better future for her child. Once there, her body starts to reject her (Smith's) transplanted brain. She dies during childbirth.

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