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[stonebender]

I had truly never intended to put anything in this journal. I'm a bit conflicted about the whole idea. I started this whole thing because I wanted to to read serenejournal's posts that are restricted to friends. It seemed like the simplest solution. I still don't expect to be a prolific contributor. I tried a Web log on my homepage years ago and only managed to feel guilty about how little I posted.

I was surprised to find I had more friends here than I thought. Hello to those who added me to their friends list.

Anybody guess where I got my user name from? Don't be surprised if this is the only post I ever make. *waving in your general direction*

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking Heinlein. Maybe it's a character/family in a story written by the author in Stranger, also mentioned in The Number of the Beast.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Good guess! It is Heinlein, and I believe the character was mentioned in The Number of the Beast. Uncle Stonebender, was a probably mythical Uncle of one of the main characters in Magic Inc. No matter what the characters were doing or trying to do Uncle Stonebender could do it better and with more style.

[lissa-dora.livejournal.com]

"Uncle Tobias we kept in a bucket..."
Jubal, from Stranger narrates it to 'Teena, the sentient computer originally from the end of Time Enough for Love... at the convention at the end of Number, which was the most self-indulgent crossover work Heinlein ever did.

Hi, I'm Lissa, and I'm a Heninlein geek.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, The Number of the Beast was written under severe blood deprevation to the brain. :-) At the time, I didn't mind his self-indulgence. I was just happy to be reading a new Heinlein. Something I thought I wouldn't be able to do again.

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[lissa-dora.livejournal.com]

BY the time I began reading Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset had just come out (oddly enough, it was the first Heinlein I read - I was about 10, and it messed me up forever ;-), so all Heinlein exists in the same timeline for me - a "new Heinlein" is one I've never encountered before.

I don't suppose you know if any Heinlein fanfic sites exist?