Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:05:28 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] That "new" Heinlein novel . .
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

John Clute gives it a fairly positive review <http://www.scifi.com/sfw/curr=
ent/excess.html>.

"For us, though, in 2004, For Us, the Living, as far as its arguments go, =
is pure Heinlein; indeed, because almost every radical notion he ever =
generated appears here in utero, the book rewrites our sense of Heinlein's =
entire career; and because Heinlein's career, as we understood it, has =
always seemed expressive of the nature of American SF from 1939 to 1966, =
this small, slightly stumblebum first novel rewrites our understanding of =
those years, especially the early ones, when John W. Campbell Jr. was =
attempting to shape the nascent genre into a weapon of future-purification.=
"

mjw