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A little self-pimping, just in case some English-speaking Heinlein fan
stumbled across this site, and wondered what this section is about...
Solutions non satisfaisantes, une anatomie de Robert A. Heinlein
(which, for once, translates exactly how it sounds like, namely) :
Solutions Unsatisfactory, An Anatomy of Robert A. Heinlein
is a fat (444 p.) new book by Ugo Bellagamba and Éric Picholle,
in French, recently released (Feb. 2008) by the French publisher
Les Moutons électriques (ISBN 978-2-915793-37-6-).
Solutions non satisfaisantes has been awarded the [url=http://www.noosfere.org/gpi/nomines2009.asp]
Grand Prix
de l'Imaginaire[/url] (GPI 2009), in the category SF-related non-fiction book.
By editor's policy, shipping is free wherever you are, and the book can be
purchased online through Paypal (22 €, or
ca. US$ 34.5, S&H included).
From the backcover (translated) :
Quote:
Robert A. Heinlein (1907—1988) is not just one of the founding fathers
of science fiction literature. An American passionately in love with liberty,
a citizen of the world, he fought every battle : a socialist with Upton Sinclair
in the 30s, a sworn ennemy of every kinds of fascism, advocating —
years before Hiroshima — a supranational control of nuclear weapons,
he paradoxically inspired the “Star Wars” project, the ultimate challenge
thrown to the late U.S.S.R.
His abundant body of works (Future History, Starship Troopers, Stranger
in a Strange Land, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) deals with the vertiginous
issues of each and every revolution of the XX[sup]th[/sup] century, from women’s
conditions to Vietnam and from the conquest of outer space to quantum
science.
For the European reader, it draws a fascinating window on the intimate
machinery of the American democracy, so close and so different…
Contents (translated) :
1. Childhood
2. Democracy in America (and beyond)
3. An Officer and a Gentleman
4. EPIC
5. The Mañana years
6. Solution unsatisfactory
7. The war years
8. On the Slopes of the Vesuvius
9. Heinlein’s women
10. The Historian of the Future
11. Natural selection
12. Space cadets
13. Ordeals in space
14. Destination Moon
15. Profession : Writer
16. When Telepathy was science
17. Heinlein’s travels
18. Double Star, Four Hugos !
19. Viet Nam
20 The Heretic
21. Heinlein, Fantasy & SF
22. TANSTAAFL
23. Heinlein & technology
24. Computers : a Comedy of consciousness
25. Heinlein vs. the critics
26. Try in a mirror ! (Time Enough for Love)
27. Star Wars
28. Did anyone ask the cat ? (Heinlein & quantum science)
29. Conclusion
Bibliography & Index
About the authors :
Quote:
Dr U. Bellagamba teaches the History of Law at the University of Nice, France.
He is also author of two SF novels, L’École des assassins (2002) and Le Double
corps du roi (2003) (both with Thomas Day), and a collection of short stories,
La Cité du Soleil et autres récits héliotropes (2003).
Dr. É. Picholle is a research physicist (nonlinear & laser science) with the
French C.N.R.S., also in Nice, and the author of several hard SF novellas.
Together, they organized the [url=http://www.unice.fr/sf/]Fifth Colloque International de Science-Fiction
de Nice[/url] (2005) and created the Rencontres Science & Fiction de Peyresq,
which in 2007 gathered 20 French-speaking scholars around the works
and pedagogy of Robert Heinlein.
ISBN 978-2-915793-37-6, Trade paperback, 20 cm x 13 cm, 444 pages, 22 €.
covert art by Patrick Imbert.
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