Borup on Nostr: I'm reading "A Stranger in a Strange Land". I've never read any Heinlein before. It ...
I'm reading "A Stranger in a Strange Land". I've never read any Heinlein before. It is really dated. It does have some interesting ideas. But they tend to get a bit lost in apparent misogyny and retro futurism.
I'm only a quarter into the book, so it might get better.
#book #scifi
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