We’re back! I took a little break. My friend Quentin — poet, musician, bartender, general man of letters and experience — comes on to talk about scifi legend Robert A. Heinlein. We get down to cases with the Heinlein Hero as a type, the hero of an individuality so profound that his creator eventually pushes him into some deeply unsettling sexual scenarios - not (just) to satisfy horniness, but to efface the stain of reproduction on his solipsism. We had a great time with this one, and we both agree: for all his flaws, at least Heinlein was complex and seldom boring.
You can find some of Quentin’s work published by 1080 Press, findable at the instagram handle (at sign)1080press, and you can see his band Harmonium in the Woodstock, New York area.
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Reading in the Time of Monsters 014 - The Heinlein Guy, with Quentin Mahoney