I Will Fear No Evil
by Robert A. Heinlein · first published 1960
29% recommend57% neutral14% critical
Ideas about our identity. Rich old man who is dying has his mind transplanted into a young woman's body. Both have to learn to live together.
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I believe now it's a very good time to reread the book I will fear no evil by Robert A. Heinlein.
on “Disembodied pig brains revived: Your questions answered” ↗Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" is a mind-bending read on transgenderism. The quality of this article is just terrible, is the author not aware that Nazi super scientist's new employers after the war weren't corporations but the US…
on “What the Nazis of ‘Wolfenstein’ tell us about the futurists of Silicon Valley” ↗Left hand of darkness was published in 69, highly recommended. Also heinlein? Look at I will fear no evil...
on “One of the greatest science fiction magazines is now available online (2017)” ↗…feminist no doubt but he also had some antiquated ideas (like women’s role in society l and the glorification of procreation). He was a femininist without doubt. My favourite wrt his treatment of gender is I Will Fear No Evil. Was he sci fi writer or writer of social commentary? He was a legit sci fiction writer and one of my favourites is All You Zombies where he deals with the paradox of time travel and ideas like when you…
on “Sci-Fi Author Robert Heinlein Was Basically MacGyver” ↗Not sure I'd suggest The Door into Summer, it's one of the weakest books from Heinlein imho together with the Number of the Beast and I Will Fear No Evil. I'd usually recommend the Moon is a Harsh Mistress or one of his juveniles as the first book.
on “The Hacker's Manifesto (1986)” ↗I read Robert Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil". The book takes place in 2015. In one of the chapters there were characters who were looking for a freshly dead body and one of the characters suggested they could search computerized medical databases…
on “The Predictions of Robert A. Heinlein, from the Cold War to the Waterbed” ↗…maybe the bit about world-building (though I think that was generally more spare than actually bad), but I can easily see how one might get that impression, especially reading later Heinlein (from about I Will Fear No Evil on) in isolation; in particular, with regard to your last example, I think reading Lazarus Long as a simple wish-fulfillment projection of the author is overtly simplistic.
on “Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House” ↗This reminds me of "I will Fear No Evil" by Robert A Heinlein. The billionaire with a brain transplant into his secretary remarked something along the lines of "Once you get rich enough you can't help making more money than you can spend."…
on “Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world” ↗_I Will Fear No Evil_ was one of Heinlein's odder novels.
on “Project outline for the first human head transplantation with spinal linkage” ↗…sentience? I think heinlein..in his own way...was probably testing..Asimov like..rights and treatment of sentient non humans. + re male/female sexual proclivities, I think Heinlein did not take it lightly. I will fear no evil was entirely dedicated to the questions of what defines gender and what is it like to be trapped in the other genders body/mind. He approached the subject fearlessly. But apparently he was gravely ill…
on “Sci-Fi Author Robert Heinlein Was Basically MacGyver” ↗…resemblance nowadays. I saw (and programmed) my first TRS-80 there. Ah, halcyon days - now they're a phone store and the bookstore in the same mall - the bookstore where I bought Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Will Fear No Evil on the same day - is dead. We need new cool stuff. The old stuff's all sad.
on “Radio Shack to start stocking Arduino, Other Goodies” ↗Part of the plot in dystopic This Perfect Day, by Ira Levine. Heinlein had an interesting twist in I Will Fear No Evil -- old billionaire male gets brain transplanted into body of a young female.
on “Project outline for the first human head transplantation with spinal linkage” ↗Heinlein stuff is generally not to be recommended. "I will fear no evil" is especially bad. A bunch of rich old dudes and hot women.
on “Disembodied pig brains revived: Your questions answered” ↗https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Fear_No_Evil SPOILER: Last paragraph of the plot summary. I found this paragraph particularly nutty (not necessarily in a bad way): > Joan marries her lawyer, Jake Salomon, and moves her household and friends onto…
on “Disembodied pig brains revived: Your questions answered” ↗The quote is from "Time Enough for Love", not "I Will Fear No Evil" :)
on “The Heinlein Score” ↗