The State of Things
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century
By William H. Patterson
19 Aug, 2025
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William H. Patterson’s 2010 Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 1: Learning Curve (1907 – 1948) and 2014 Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better (1948 – 1988) form a two-volume hagiography of famed science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein (1907 – 1988).
The first of these two volumes was released with what I remember as considerable fanfare on the tor dot com site. The second, so far as I remember, was not1. Why the difference? A cynic would say that by the time The Man Who Learned Better appeared, people had read and commented on Learning Curve.
It is quite clear that Patterson held Heinlein in very high regard.