I started Under The Dome last week, liking it so far! I’ve only got the loan for a few more days though so I’ll have to wait to finish
Listening to Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of the otherlands! It’s so good so far.
Also, we may need to scale up the instance soon. Oof.
I am reading “The moon is a harsh mistress” by Heinlein. It’s the first time i read him in the original language, and it’s glorious! He talks about a moon uprising against the earth government. The book reads a bit like a battle diary, at times quite dry. The part I love the most is how he plays with so many political and ethical concepts, like completely supporting prostitution. His extreme left tendencies are not hidden in this book. I’m enjoying it a lot!
It’s a great book but Heinlein is generally considered right wing not left I thought ?
According to wiki while he started off leftish he was quite conservative/libertarian by the time of “moon is a harsh mistress”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein
"yet Heinlein became a hero to libertarians: Milton Friedman praised Heinlein’s 1966 novel The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, which chronicled an anti-statist rebellion on a lunar colony, as a “wonderful” book and commended Heinlein "
https://gizmodo.com/how-robert-heinlein-went-from-socialist-to-libertarian-1588357827
Edit to add
Having read the gizmodo article again it seems a more complicated shift than a simplistic left youth, right in middle age and for most of his books. Seems to have a complex view point although “starship troopers” is certainly a right wing oriented novel.
Thanks for triggering further investigation. Interesting
