The very things that probably made this a lot of fun when it was published (and even when I first read it in early 1990s) now seem to fall flat. Gender norms are reinforced despite the obvious playfullness meant by the "sex change" of the plot, and for 1970 is might be called progressive, but in a way that's troubling. But what to say? Part of the book hasn't aged well, which is apt for the story – the forward thinking permissiveness of the sexual revolution comes across here as increased sexual availability of women in an ever more expanding patriarchy. I "read" this again as an audiobook, and the performer was excellent. I think I shall have more to say about this – just not today. In a strange way, it has a similar feel as, even though the implications of “A baby cried, a world began” are exactly opposite of "The shark.was very hungry that season." I feel like there's something I'm missing in the progression of the story that would be explain it better. I'm not sure Heinlein needed as many pages as he took to get the result he did.
There were in it, but they are muddled by the incessant idleness (in a sense) of the characters. 14, 2015: This story will take awhile to process. In general, people seem to choose one of two ways to handle Robert Heinlein’s I Will Fear No Evil: detest it in all its casually (and sometimes not so casually) misogynistic odiousness, or love it like an uncouth grandfather who “grew up in a different time.” As is often a case, I don’t think either extreme is quite right.įeb. 21, 2015: As promised, I have had some more thoughts about this book.
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