LOST ROBERT HEINLEIN BOOK TO BE PUBLISHED

From CBC News via J. Orlin Grabbe:

The American science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein is known for such classic novels as Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

A new book reveals that Heinlein, at least early in his life, was a Socred, a believer in the Social Credit movement that came to power in Alberta in 1935.

Heinlein's long-lost first novel, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs, is scheduled for publication in January. It imagines a future America patterned on 1930s Alberta.

Heinlein wrote the novel in the late 1930s. It tells the story of a U.S. Navy officer named Perry Nelson who is killed in a traffic accident and is somehow transported, alive, to the California of 2086.

The book was rejected by a number of publishers, probably because much of the story is actually a series of lectures on how Heinlein felt the future should look. In later works, Heinlein would use fictional characters for the same purpose.

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Hmmm. It probably won't be as good as Stranger in a Strange Land or Time Enough for Love, but seeing as how I've long ago read just about every Heinlein book I could get my hands on, I'll probably read this one, too. Here's some information on Social Credit economic philosophy. I'd never heard of it before--it's kind of interesting, albeit supposititious...much like neo-liberalism.

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