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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2019-11-30 11:06 am

Follow-up to the earlier question

Which mainstream science fiction or fantasy work would you say was the most racist mainstream science fiction or fantasy work?

(Mainstream = published by a legit publisher, not some vanity house)
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[personal profile] dragoness_e 2019-12-01 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
From what I've read in Heinlein's posthumous memoirs, very likely. He was the type to take a sly poke at someone he despised in a way that didn't cost him a sale. Presumably this story was written before Heinlein stopped doing business with editors that insisted on rewrites to their specifications.