The King is Dead, Long Live RAH.

I too, have been an almost life long fan of RAH. If you have not read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" then you have missed a lot of really introspective work by RAH. One of the main characters has often been theorized to be autobiographical. The aged professor who works with the three main characters to engineer a revolution is, in my opinion, RAH himself. In reading the book, you get an understanding of RAH and his whole attitude toward government and society. By his own admission he considers himself a "rational anarchist". I suspect that this view extended to his private sexual life as well.

Was he a dominant? I think so. Would he have titled himself as such. I am not so sure. I don't think he did or would admit to participating in BDSM lifestyle actions. His wife, a strong woman in her own right, always supported him in his plans and work. She was a partner more than anything else.

My only regret is that I never got meet the man. I never had the opportunity to hear him speak, visit his home or just listen to him discourse on politics or religion.

I have often wondered if I have it in myself to do the necessary research to derive from all of his books and his non-fiction writings and speeches, a sort of "Guide to Life and Living" .

TDS

PS great thread. Lets keep it going and do some really in depth stuff with his books. I am always up to re-visit the ones I haven't read in years.