I am the Dean of Modern Science Fiction

I am: Robert A. Heinlein Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.

Which science fiction writer are you?

And I wasn't even trying for him! Heinlein is far and away my favorite writer in my favorite genre. I suppose it's a little arrogant of me, but I tend to feel like I identify with Lazarus Long. (Of course, I've never traveled back in time two millennia and slept with my mother, but to each his own.)

My Lovely, Brilliant and Gravid Wife read Job a while back, and that was enough for her. I enjoyed the humor of it, since it pokes fun (kindly, albeit with an edge) at the Fundamentalism I grew up with, but it tested her patience to the limit, as Christian theology was one of the few things Heinlein was underinformed about. The net effect was much like I had written a satire on astrophysics – it might have been fun to read, but a specialist would grind his teeth at the howlers.

I don't like the sexual mores he put into his books, especially the later ones, but outside of that, Heinlein and I get along perfectly. His are among the books I read when I'm too tired to read something new, and I've read just about everything he published. I'm still hoping to live to see the publication of the "stinkeroos."

A/T to my LBaGW, who sent this to me the second she saw it. I'll bet she wasn't too surprised either.