Science Fiction

is that he puts up a great show about venerating women, and seeming to think women are great, at least as good as men. However, it's clear that in his version of the universe women are desperately eager to have babies, and will defer almost everything else to that end.

Mind you, I'm a woman who very much wanted to have babies, and did eventually have two, but even with that almost Heinleinian perspective, I'm greatly offended by RAH's women want to have babies above all else perspective.

He cloaks a genuine misogynistic view in what appears to be an equality thing. It's not that at all. It relegates women to their childbearing function and almost nothing else.

Besides which, there's a very uncomfortable pedophilia in his later works that is beyond creepy.

Despite that, his earlier works are very good, and I still wish someone would make a good movie out of such early novels as "Tunnel in the Sky" or "Time For the Stars" or "Double Star". He wrote a lot of things that are worth reading and could make excellent movies.

As an aside, one of my disappointments about the sci-fi channel was that they have not gotten around to doing independent movies based on various early s-f novels. Sigh.