Heinlein Fans here?

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I met Bob Heinlien three times. First, as a fifth-grader when I read "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel; next, during the summer between grade school and junior high when I read, for the first time, "Starship Troopers"; finally I met Bob at a party at some science fiction convention we were attending when my wife introduced us. In real life he was even better than his books.



And that's saying a lot.

[Old Hippie]

In real life he was even better than his books. And that's saying a lot.

And Ginny was most gracious. I was introduced through J.F. Bone, another SF writer who lived in my home town and was an old Army buddy of my father's.

It seems many writers are good people -- Heinlein, Bone, Spider Robinson, and Jack McDevitt spring to mind (and also tell you what I like in SF...). I've either met or carried on extended correspondences with all of them, and always come away feeling like there were so many ways I could be a better person.

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