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Yeah, I really liked most of his work as a kid and not surprisingly was receptive to libertarianism when I came across it more formally later in life. Looking back, he did seem to consider space as a new frontier where freedom was maximised.
My father considered him a surrogate father figure when he was growing up. He said Stranger in a Strange Land was his favorite science fiction book. I read it as well, and his other works like Time Enough For Love, etc.; and it was good but not my style of Sci-Fi. Zelazny’s Lord of Light, Neuromancer, Dune, etc., were much closer to what I liked to read when it came to that and it was somewhat controversial as a matter of taste. Our interests diverged on this point. I always liked Cyberpunk and especially Sci-Fi that mixed heavy religious and philosophical themes with futurism. It’s why I’ve always had a soft spot for Chronicles of Riddick but there are very few movies that do the kind of thing they did. It’s extremely niche, even within Sci-Fi literature as a whole, never mind cinema. But he was more one of those “religion is bullshit,” type of people. Very knowledgeable on the topic but didn’t like discussing it. He’d always say he was agnostic but that if someone really pressed him he’d admit he was an atheist. To him all there was, was matter and energy; not a gullible man at all. I think when I came out as Catholic it was a real disappointment to him. He wondered why I liked that variety of Sci-Fi, and I think it’s probably related to my religious beliefs.
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