Re: "The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes" by Robert A. Heinlein and an introduction by David Weber

On 22/04/2024 22.02, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 4/19/2024 7:53 AM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 18/04/2024 15.24, Lynn McGuire wrote:

If you are offended by sex, and I mean lots of sex,

>
Especially the rampant incest.

 There is no incest in
1. Methuselah's Children

Part Two, Chapter 1 has Eleanor Johnson, "granddaughter, four times
removed" of Lazarus Long, state that she had proposed to him and
been turned down by him because of their blood relationship.
So, the incest was only proposed, not actually implemented.

3. The Number Of The Beast

Chapter IV has Deejah Thoris tell Hilda that:
     “I’ll tell you the truth, Aunt Hilda. Pop has never laid a hand on me. But if he had … I would not have refused. I love him.”
Later[1], Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby Long says:
     […] “Being a woman seemed completely natural. I’ve had five children now — borne five, I mean; I had sired twenty-one … and one was put into me by one of my own descendants.” […]
In Chapter XLIV, we read:
     “While I’m on this and no one here but family — Jacob, there is no reason not to create a third mathematical supergenius by crossing you with your daughter.”
     […]
     So I looked at Jake in time to see his face shift from suprise to shock. “But that’s —”
     “Incest?” Libby supplied. “No, Jacob, incest is a social matter. Whether you choose to bed your daughter is none of my business. […]”

4. The Pursuit Of The Pankera

Not one of the non-Pankera LL books on your list, so not relevant to my remark.

5. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (so far, I am halfway through)

And you've now posted elsewhere in this thread about the group marriage
including LL, his mother, and his clone sisters.
[1] Sorry to be so vague about where this is found, but my notes say
"Chapter IV", which is obviously way too early for Libby to have made
her appearance.
--
Michael F. Stemper
There's no "me" in "team". There's no "us" in "team", either.