Update on Volume II of the Heinlein Biography

It's been quite awhile since I posted anything here, but the interregnum ( a word I learned from Heinlein!) has built up a fair back log of ideas, items and images.

Heinlein biographer Bill Patterson announced on his blog in June that "the re-recut manuscript for volume 2 of the Heinlein Biography" has been accepted.

"My title for volume 2 is 'The Man Who Learned Better.'"

Very interesting title, indeed. My take is that Heinlein (unlike many humans) kept learning all of his life. In particular, some of the political and economic ideas that we saw in volume 1 ("Learning Curve") were modified by experience.

So we will likely see The Man Who Learned Better in 2014.

Prophet of Science Fiction

If you haven't had the opportunity to see the Science Channel series "Prophets of Science Fiction" it's now on YouTube. Of course I was most interested in the Heinlein episode! It features commentary by Bill Patterson and Robert James.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. Next post will probably be in 2013.

Tangentially Related to RAH, But Fascinating

Jack Parsons. Aleister Crowley. L. Ron Hubbard.

Parsons

Heinlein lurks silently in the background. See Bill Patterson's biography.

I Am in the Middle of a Major Home Move

But coming soon, new and original material!

Really, truly.

The Heinlein Society. That is all.

What REALLY happened at the 2012 Howard Families Meeting?

Vacation in the Golden Age of SF!

Writer Jamie Todd Rubin has posted a series of exhaustive reviews of issues of Astounding from the "Golden Age." Naturally, many include a Heinlein story (or two, one under a pseudonym).

Great example: Vacation in the Golden Age, Episode 27: September 1941, including "Elsewhere" and the final installment of "Methuselah's Children." Also, Isaac Asimov's big breakthrough, "Nightfall."

There are lots more of these, and lots more great content on his blog. Enjoy!