![]() ![]() Heinlein did as good a job of conveying Campbell’s idea in fiction as anybody could. A few anecdotes and a good just-so story outweigh a hundred historical counter-examples. In pushing this strange notion, Campbell was behaving very much like his arch-nemesis, Karl Marx. ![]() that “an armed society is a polite society.” Campbell, who was then holding forth on one of his favorite themes. Heinlein wrote the first half at behest of the famed editor of Astounding Magazine, John W. Like most Heinlein novels, Beyond This Horizon divides pretty evenly into two parts and it is only the second half that I hold in high regard. (A prescriptive utopia is where an author “prescribes” what he or she believes a better civilization would look like.) While Heinlein did opine, extensively, about society in many books, from Starship Troopers to Glory Road, it is in Beyond This Horizon that you’ll find him clearly stating This Is The Way Things Ought To Be.Īnd it turns out to be a fascinating, surprisingly nuanced view of our potential future. ![]() I consider Robert Heinlein’s most fascinating novel to be his prescriptive utopia Beyond This Horizon. ![]()
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