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misogyny is needed for him. He pretends to honor and value women even as he stereotypes them. All of his women are desperately eager to have children, and they get pregnant as quickly as possible.

He also indulges in incest and pedophilia, and has never been held to account for these. His later books are very creepy.

I was at the Robert Heinlein Centennial, in 2007 in Kansas City. In one of the workshops a man spoke up, saying he'd known Heinlein and his wife Virginia, and that Virginia was a complete right-wing nut case, and that it was clear Robert was following in her footsteps. He was ignored, which I found quit disturbing. There was a deification of Heinlein that was truly disturbing.

He wrote a lot of pretty good stuff early on, and I think he pretty much rested on his laurels in the second half of his career. He was at the World Con in Kansas City in 1976, and from the stories I've heard from people who were there, he was a strange and self-centered character.