I could almost see Bollywood films being made of his books – he has a strong (almost swashbuckling) hero, a “bad guy”, betrayal and romance – all the requirements for a good potboiler.
It might appear that way because his books were written about 50 years or so back, and science fiction has since become starker, shorn of lascivious details.
Heinlein writes science fiction, but he writes juicy science fiction, this one juicier and “lighter” than his other works. Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein are the cure for any bad book, and so it is that I have recently listened to “The Door into Summer” – a rebound from having listened to about an hour or so of Kate Atkinson’s “Life after life”. Whenever I come across a tiresome book, a book I abandon midway, or stop listening to because the narrator’s voice grates, I return to my safe haven – science fiction.
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