Blish On Heinlein And Anderson

(For something completely different, not prose fiction but graphic documentary, and an interesting epistemological problem, see here.)

See James Blish And Poul Anderson IV.


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On pp. 56-57, Blish writes that:

Robert Heinlein's Have Spacesuit - Will Travel preaches its author's "...doctrine that man is a highly dangerous wild animal..."; (p. 57)

Poul Anderson pointed out, in S-F Forum No. 1, that this idea is entirely romantic;

Anderson's view that man was the first domesticated animal is more plausible.

Anderson addresses this question through his character, van Rijn: see here and here.