Does anyone else hate Stranger in a Strange Land, and Robert Heinlein in general?
I find that whole era/style of sci-fi silly, dated, and Heinlein in particular to be a chauvinist pig. These writers, many of them (wannabe)scientists, believed in and wrote about scientist super men. Lone men(always men) of bulky IQ and suave manners. Who save the world/universe/multiverse/timeline/whatever and get a girl as reward in the end.
Basically whatever would appeal(read sell books) to pubescent teenage nerds and adults who never grew out of that phase.
I find that whole era/style of sci-fi silly, dated, and Heinlein in particular to be a chauvinist pig. These writers, many of them (wannabe)scientists, believed in and wrote about scientist super men. Lone men(always men) of bulky IQ and suave manners. Who save the world/universe/multiverse/timeline/whatever and get a girl as reward in the end.
Basically whatever would appeal(read sell books) to pubescent teenage nerds and adults who never grew out of that phase.