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Subject: Re: Digest V10 #105:  Heinlein's stroke
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From: Alderson@Score

Beg to differ.  Heinlein did NOT suffer a stroke, but WAS at one time suffering
from circulation-deficiency problems of the brain.  I do not recall the
details--and I loaned (permanently, it seems) my copy of _Expanded Universe_ to
a friend.  However, in one of the non-fiction selections therein, he describes
the events which led to his recovery; as I recall, the original version of this
essay was his testimony before a Congressional committee looking into "just
what the space program has done for us."  (NB:  The quotes are MY paraphrase.)

I agree about the joy at the publication of _Friday_; however, I fear that most
RAH fans will disagree with us.  I've found that few of them like anything
since _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_.  (I myself didn't like _Farnham's
Freehold_ the first time I read it.)  Most of them seem to object most to his
reaction to the Panshins' criticism of _Stranger in a Strange Land_, that he
couldn't write about sex.

Enough fuel for the fires.  And a mini-flame:  Goulart is as bad as Herbert and
Leinster!

						Rich Alderson
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