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bitterkarella · 2 months

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Midnight Pals: Desert Planet

Stephen King: so i'm gonna go over to space coven tonight to tell a story Clive Barker: what, the sci fi nerds? good luck with that King: oh they're not so bad once you get to know them, clive Barker: i do not intend to know nerds

King: look, clive, you know mary goes over to the sci fi campfire sometimes Barker: i do not believe it King: it's true! she invented sci fi, you know Barker: mary shelley? OUR mary shelley? the queen witch? Barker: she invented being a nerd?

Barker: oh steve Barker: you can't expect me to swallow that whopper King: it's true! edgar, tell him Poe: steve's right, clive. she really did Barker: Barker: well now i just don't know what to believe

King: i know those sci fi guys are a little odd but King: if you ever want to read a prose version of a mildly confusing math problem King: i mean bam they're your guys! Barker: Barker: yeah well Barker: have fun with that

King: you know, clive a lot of science fiction actually deals with important issues in today's society? King: they really make you think [at space coven] Robert Heinlein: so once we space-stead Pinochet's Gulch on an asteroid, we'll be free from the tyranny of age of consent laws

[at space coven] King: so in this story they invent a way to travel through space King: but you have to be unconscious for it to work Frank Herbert: i have a better idea for space travel Herbert: what if you had to get really blasted

Herbert: let me explain my vision steve Herbert: In a distant time Herbert: And far away place Herbert: The planet Arrakis floats deep in space Herbert: Sky of three suns Herbert: Land of precious spice Herbert: The melange rush brought great houses at any price

Herbert: Then one day, a Muad'Dib appeared Herbert: With powers of hawk, wolf, puma and bear Herbert: Protector of peace, scion of the Bene Gesserit ladies Herbert: Champion of justice, Marshall Paul Atreides! King: King: hey how many of those mushrooms did you eat

Herbert: so the important thing about Dune, okay Herbert: is there's all this political intrigue Heinlein: and worms? Herbert: yeah yeah there's gonna be worms Herbert: let's talk about these factions though Heinlein: how big are the worms

Herbert: you're gonna love this story Herbert: though its not as great as the melodic beauty & divine truth of the 114 surahs of the Qur'an Heinlein: Herbert: inshallah Heinlein: why do you always have to put so much islam in it Herbert: i just Herbert: i just think its neat

Mary Shelley: [busting into clearing] sup fuckers Shelley: who's ready for their weekly beating? Heinlein: no! no! not mary shelley! Heinlein: have mercy!!! Heinlein: here, take all our lunch money! Heinlein: just don't punish us anymore!

King: mary! Is this what you've been doing when you come to this campfire? Shelley: [wailing on Heinlein] what? oh yeah, p much.

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #stephen king #clive barker #edgar allan poe #mary shelley #frank herbert #robert heinlein

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retroscifiart · 1 year

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Art by Frank Kelly Freas for The Green Hills of Earth by Robert Heinlein

#frank kelly freas #robert heinlein

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cinematic-literature · 3 months

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The Faculty (1998) by Robert Rodriguez

Book title: Double Star (1956) by Robert A. Heinlein

#clea duvall #the faculty #robert rodriguez #books into movies #american literature #double star #robert heinlein

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rvengefulobster · 2 months

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Twitter has been re-litigating Starship Troopers recently so one of my mutuals requested a poster based on the WWII "This man is your FRIEND" series.

#starship troopers #wwii poster #this man is your friend #the bugs #the bugs were in the right #paul verhoeven #robert heinlein #arachnids

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sailorheadcanons · 19 days

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When Usagi started reading "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein nobody paid it much attention.

Then the next week Usagi asked her friends if they were in some sort of line marriage like in the novel, and they started worrying she may want to put a giant railgun on the Moon.

#Sailor Moon #Sailor Moon headcanons #Tsukino Usagi #Robert Heinlein #lord martiya

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sharkchunks · 8 months

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Starship Troopers promotional page from a convention in 1997.

#starship troopers #paul verhoeven #phil tippett #robert heinlein #movies

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racefortheironthrone · 2 months

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Just read on Wikipedia that Heinlein ran for California State Assembly as a left-wing Democrat in the prewar era. Any idea what caused his change of heart towards crypto-fascism?

Like a lot of people, Heinlein's politics were bizarre and internally contradictory.

An Upton Sinclair Socialist who became a supposed libertarian who was fascinated by Social Credit who also believed in the need for a militaristic authoritarian one-world government but also supported Barry Goldwater for President and was very in favor of both nuclear war and Vietnam but was also an anti-racist but also had deeply weird views about gender and sexuality that I really hope he never acted on...it's hard even to describe this as a standard "red to brown" ideological shift.

The only way I can describe it is:

#science fiction #u.s politics #u.s history #cultural history #robert heinlein

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blocpulp · 2 months

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Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers (USSR, 1990)

artist: A. Nazarenko

#scifiart #sci fi art #science fiction #sci fi #sff #heinlein #robert heinlein #book covers #ussr #90s #A. Nazarenko

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lost-carcosa · 29 days

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philosophors · 8 months

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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, “Stranger in a Strange Land”

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bitterkarella · 2 months

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Midnight Pals: Desert Planet 2

Frank Herbert: hey man Fitz James O'Brien: hey Herbert: so uh Herbert: you got any more of that Herbert: special stuff? O'Brien: maybe O'Brien: why don't you sit down and play some mariokart with me for a while

[later, at space coven] Frank Herbert: [manic, nose running] so there's a special drug that makes you hallucinate so hard you can fold space Herbert: its made out of worm shit and it will turn you into a salamander

Herbert: also they have to use the space cocaine to fly cuz computers are haram Herbert: hey is anyone eating this san pedro cactus? Jules Verne: what? no Herbert: anyone mind if i…?

Verne: you know, frank, people usually process that before they eat it Verne: you know to get at the Herbert: [chomping san pedro cactus] yeah the mesaline i know Verne: maybe take the spines out at least Herbert: no no the stabbing gets it into your system faster

Herbert: everyone wants to own this drug Herbert: cuz whoever controls the spice Herbert: controls the universe Herbert: shit, that's pretty good Herbert: quick, someone hand me a pencil, i gotta write that one down

Jules Verne: alright hot shot Verne: so you say whoever controls the spice controls the universe Verne: well answer me this Verne: this spice Verne: does it flow? Herbert: [desperately patting pockets] for the love of christ someone hand me a pencil!!

Herbert: so like everyone is fighting over arrakis Herbert: to get the spice, you know Robert Heinlein: yeah! Yeah!!! fighting!!! yeah! Herbert: that's right Herbert: POLITICAL fighting Heinlein: Herbert: ooo there's so much intrigue Heinlein:

David Lynch: the dark in the deep, the eyes in the snail Herbert: really? a movie of my book? Lynch: the dark in the deep Herbert: oh yeah it's called dune

Herbert: you know, arrakis, dune, desert planet Herbert: and here's the important thing-- Lynch: the eyes in the snail Herbert: exactly! Herbert: NOT A DROP of water Herbert: NOTADROP!!!

Lynch: the dark in the deep the eyes in the snail Herbert: thanks for all coming to this screening of lynch's dune movie Herbert: i'm sure you'll all- Jules Verne: SHOW US THE WORM! Robert Heinlein: WE WANT THE WORM! HG Wells: WORM! WORM! WORM!

Herbert: everyone just wants to see the worm Herbert: maybe they'll be more tuned in to my vision over at midnight society [at midnight society] Poe: WE WANT WORM! King: GIVE US WORM! Lovecraft: WHERE'S THE WORM? Barker: SHOW WORM, COWARD! Koontz: [banging pot] WORM! WORM! WORM!

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #stephen king #clive barker #edgar allan poe #dean koontz #hp lovecraft #frank herbert #hg wells #jules verne #robert heinlein #fitz james o'brien #david lynch

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retroscifiart · 2 years

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