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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (35758)	6/2/2005 5:54:49 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I have a hunch you are referring to the fictional Heinlein character from which he draws his SI alias. Oh, yes -g- I must confess to not having read any Heinlein. I know. I have been told. I am little more than an illiterate dunce. <g> I read all Heinlein books when I was in high school & found them very interesting, full of fresh ideas that flew in the face of societal norms. You probably would not find them so interesting if you read them now. The Lazarus Long books start with "Time Enough For Love", where he is already over 2,000 years old, thanks to a mutation on top of a genetic breeding program for longevity. He has witnessed a chunk of human history, led people in the first off-world migration, changed countless identities and professions, had a zillion women (all grew old and died) including his former adopted daughter Dora, and now wants to die in peace. Then come the women -g- First the computer he tells his memoirs to (Minerva) decides to become a real woman, literally to have sex with him. Then they clone Laz and give him identical twin female "daughters" ("Lapis Lazuli" and "Lorelei Lee") that are all him except for the sex change. Then those little witches get into his bed. There are a couple of other women I can't remember, I think. Basically, they keep him too busy to contemplate about his death wish :-) In subsequent books "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" and "To Sail Beyond The Sunset", we are presented to Laz's mother Maureen, and finally understand where he gets his promiscuity from -g- He manages to travel back through time, meet his mother, bed her, and bring her back to his time where he officially becomes one of his sexual partners. Lazarus Long books are not all about sex, but there is a lot of happy bunnihood going on among ALL characters. On the side, there are also words of wisdom such as "Alcohol is bad for you because it can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss" and "A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain", etc :-) I love it when that happens! How many languages do you speak? Four fluently that I can also read and write. Another three that I can speak without terribly embarrassing myself, read and understand fairly well, but can't write. And a couple of dialects that I understand a little bit but would not risk my life on that "understanding".