A special mention for the reader, Christopher Hurt, who does an excellent job with his voice work.Ĭontemporary review not based on fond memories! But all works are products of their times, and this one fine story for those who choose to listen. Heinlein's attitudes towards homosexuality would change over the next couple of decades the book's views on that and on drug use are stuck in the 1960's. Could the religion described in the book actually exist? There now is a real Church of All Worlds clearly, their members think so. But the ideas remain, and they're still thought-provoking. We live in the world that this book helped to make it's hard to be shocked by it anymore. Now we've had communes and religions that were formed based on the ideas in this book. In the post-Watergate, post-Pill, post-Sun-Myung-Moon era, it's hard for some folks to see the stunning impact the book had. I don't say this novel was solely responsible for changing the world, but it was part of the spark that began that change. SIASL was written before the sexual revolution began, before cynicism about our government was popular, when mainstream religious thought was considered above criticism. Will you find this book boring? You may if: you expect all science fiction to be about action, aliens, spaceships, violence, and bizarre sex if you don't have the patience to listen to a conversation about ideas if you don't know what the American world-view was like when the book was written.
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