Book Review: Assignment in Eternity by Robert A. Heinlein

Book #52 of 2019: Assignment in Eternity by Robert A. Heinlein This 1953 anthology collects four stories by Robert A. Heinlein originally published over the preceding decade. Each has its moments of rip-roaring sci-fi fun, but none are particularly great as a whole, and the author’s flaws are unfortunately on full display throughout. There’s casual …

Book Review: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein

Book #106 of 2018: The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein This 1957 sci-fi romp is fun, but it bears many problematic hallmarks of the genre fiction written by white men in that era. Minor setbacks are blithely compared to slavery and rape, female characters are treated patronizingly, and the 30-year-old protagonist kind of …

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