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December 20, 2003
For Us, the Living
It is hard to say what Heinlein would make of today's Alberta, let alone today's Canada, but he was impressed by the Social Credit Alberta of the 1930s (via the Melbourne Truth of Blogs).
Heinlein's long-lost first novel, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs, is scheduled for publication in January. It imagines a future America patterned on 1930s Alberta. Heinlein wrote the novel in the late 1930s. It tells the story of a U.S. Navy officer named Perry Nelson who is killed in a traffic accident and is somehow transported, alive, to the California of 2086.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 20, 2003 08:16 AM
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And having gotten through 3/4's of the book so far...it's booorrrrinnngggg...
Sure, you see concepts that RAH mined and used throughout his career. But it's a good thing this novel was lost. And as big a fan as I am of his stuff, maybe this one should have stayed lost.
Posted by: FredKiesche at December 20, 2003 04:05 PM
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