For Us, the Living
From an e-mail booklist, and an oddity. Looks like it’s an early Robert A. Heinlein novel. Great, critical accolades. In short, after picking up a pulp-price online version, I guess I need to look for the hardback, and make some room on the shelf.
There were, as I recall, and this is my own, porous memory, but there were certain thematic elements, and if this is a 1938/9 original piece? As reported? It shows the earliest inceptions and possible literary birthplace for those ideas.
It’s an early, possibly first, science fiction novel from one of the great authors of the golden age, and supposedly the novel shows the roots for all that comes after.
For Us, the Living
Weird set-up, and misses on much, but as an alternative history? Then, too, much of what is in later worker, I Will Fear No Evil, and the deliciously military Starship Troopers, roots are evident.
“It is my belief that history is a story of the action of individuals, acting according to their characters in the environments in which they find themselves.” Page 121.
Succinct definition. Opinion.
Incipient feminism, too. One before it was fashionable, applicable, or realistic. Still, one of my own root sources.
For Us, the Living
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