To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
RAH -- A Belated Memorial
Robert Anson Heinlein was born a century ago this month. He was, and remains, the greatest science fiction writer of all time. No other writer in the genre has had nearly the impact on our culture as he has.
Read the WSJ tribute to him here.
The Reason Magazine tribute is here.
Dwayne Day pens a tribute here.
Here is the Heinlein home page.
Here is the homepage of the Heinlein Society.
RAH was a master of aphorisms. Read some Heinlein quotes here.
The proliferation of sites dedicated to RAH and his work is testimony to his wide-ranging influence today, nearly two decades after his death.