![]() ![]() So at one point Smith's eventual character visits the home of a poor family and shows how to cook using "depression cooking" despite not having cooked for them-self in decades.Īt the end of his life, Smith, uses his wealth to have his brain transferred to a replacement body. Heinlein uses age, as he does in several of his books, to allow characters to comment expertly on the present through their experiences of the past. It focuses on the life of Johann Smith, an extremely wealthy billionaire (though he is implied to be even richer than that sounds today) who is coming to the end of his long life. But Mendlesohn's repeatedly returns to a major novel by Heinlein which I had never read - I Will Fear No Evil and given what she says I felt I ought to read it before, perhaps, coming finally to terms with Heinlein.įirst published in 1970 and written in 1968-1969 it bears all the hallmarks of that period. HeinleinI have an ambiguous relationship with his novels. As I described in my review of Farah Mendlesohn's critical biography of Robert Heinlein, The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. ![]()
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