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Robert A. Heinlein: One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote —
Authority: 128
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. - Robert A. Heinlein Sadly, it is human nature to measure success by comparison with our neighbors. A consequence of this tendency is the instinct to wish for others to fail and our own status to ...12 hours ago -
Supposedly Fun Books I’ll Never Read Again
Gerry Canavan —
Authority: 441
David Foster Wallace’s top ten books may surprise you. Via Twitter.13 hours ago -
Letters of Note
Gerry Canavan —
Authority: 441
Letters of Note is Strange Maps for correspondence. Recent entries include Robert Heinlein’s form letter for his fans, the telegram announcing the attack on Pearl Harbor, a letter warning of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and a turn-of-the-century letter from Nikola Tesla announcing contact with ...13 hours ago -
‘Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang’
Gerry Canavan —
Authority: 441
Probably the best short story in The Apex Book of World SF . By Kristen Mandigma. Now, to your letter. I confess to having read it with some consternation. I am well acquainted with your penchant for morbid humor and yet the suggestion that I might write a short “piece” for a speculative fiction magazine ...4 days ago -
Graham’s meme
Zille Defeu's Fetish Fantasies —
Authority: 411
There’s been memes going around the blogs like the annual winter flu is going around me and all my friends.None have really excited me that much, but Graham has fixed that! Here is her meme. I’ve caught Graham fever — you can too!1. Tell us your Kinsey rating! (That is, where you fall, [...]Related posts: ...6 days ago -
Book of the Week: ‘Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates’
Moe Lane —
Authority: 645
Yeah, I know: but Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between was something that I had grabbed for my wife to pass the time while waiting for midwife appointments, mostly because of the cover art. I’m ...1 week ago -
Phil Dick’s Dream Library
File 770 —
Authority: 136
Philip K. Dick had a series of dreams about needing to find an unidentified book. Letters of Note has posted a copy of the correspondence where Dick explains that the sought after book is not Heinlein’s I Will Fear No Evil . The first dream on July 4 was much more explicit than any before; I took down my ...1 week ago -
Read: November 2009
Sharp Words —
Authority: 106
Unseen Academicals , Terry Pratchett. Own copy, re-read for 2009. See my October reading list for my opinion of this. Revelation , C J Sansom. Library book, first read. I don’t think I liked this much as the previous books in the series. It seemed to be straying too much into modern crime territory, with its ...1 week ago -
Sigaliris and the inescapable logic of Heinlein’s multiverse…
Alexandria —
Authority: 489
I had reviewed my previous couple of posts and was gratified to see that the one on civility had gone to twenty-five comments, even though more than half were on Heinlein. I wasn’t all that surprised by that, since it must be an internet truism that any posting on the internet, given enough time, will work its way ...2 weeks ago -
Political Advice from Robert Heinlein
UrbanGrounds —
Authority: 137
Glenn Reynolds posts this still-timely political advice from my favorite author, Robert Heinlein:3 weeks ago -
Heinlein on censorship by government
Stars Over Washington —
Authority: 130
“When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been ...3 weeks ago -
Book of the Week: Take Back Your Government.
Moe Lane —
Authority: 645
This one via Instapundit , and I’ve heard of it in the past: Take Back Your Government , by Bob Heinlein. I’d say “Yes, the Bob Heinlein” – except that nobody would dare write under the same name. It’s a practical treatise on local electoral politics that I suspect a bunch of people would like to ...3 weeks ago -
Human Beings Should Be Able To ROCK IT. Specialization is for Insects.
SolidSmack.com —
Authority: 125
Out of the list of awesome things you’ve accomplished, including bathing a kitty, chopping celery and catching a pineapple in your mouth, there’s some other things as a human being, and even more, as a design engineer, you should be able to do. If not, you’re doomed. In response to a guest post here on ...3 weeks ago -
Gift List Suggestions - #1 - Sci Fi
Book News and Reviews —
Authority: 114
I’ll admit to not being the most consistent blogger in the world, but with the holidays coming up my mind has turned to books. They are (usually) a cheap and interesting present that people will appreciate - even if they don’t read them, a book will make them look more learned when displayed on the coffee ...4 weeks ago -
Review: Starship Troopers
The Geeky Librarian —
Authority: 103
Starship Troopers in one of the benchmarks of the science fiction cannon, as well as just about the most troubling book in it. This is the book that gave birth to proper military s.f; with everything from Aliens to Halo borrowing themes and idea from it. It’s the first and possibly the best book about an ...4 weeks ago

