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Originally Posted by whswhs

My personal opinion is that Heinlein was at his best in the young adult novels from Space Cadet through Starship Troopers. After The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress he became unreliable, and the novels with Lazarus Long as a character are mostly painful to read. I somewhat like Friday and Job, but neither one has an actual ending.

I am in complete agreement on that.

Other works that influenced FLAT BLACK (and that I am aware of) include:

• Isaac Asimov: Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun
• Lloyd Biggle, Jnr: Monument
• Arthur C. Clark: Imperial Earth, Rendezvous with Rama
• Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent
• Phillip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Gordon Dickson: Dorsai, ‘Soldier, Ask Not…’
• Tom Godwin: The Cold Equations
• Joe Haldeman: All My Sins Remembered, Forever War, Worlds, Worlds Apart
• Robert Heinlein: Beyond This Horizon, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Space Cadet, Starship Troopers
• Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
• Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed, Left Hand of Darkness, Rocannon’s World, The Word for World is Forest
• Frank Miller: The Dark Knight
• Allan Moore: Watchmen
• Larry Niven: The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton
• Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle: Footfall, The Mote in God’s Eye, Oath of Fealty
• George Orwell: 1984
• H. Beam Piper: Space Viking, Minister of Disturbance
• Jerry Pournelle: The Mercenary, Prince David’s Spaceship, West of Honour
• Robert Silverberg: The Tower of Glass
• Cordwainer Smith: Norstrilia
• Elizabeth Marshal Thomas: The Animal Wife
• Jack Vance: The Anome, Araminta Station, The Augmented Agent, Blue Planet, The Book of Dreams, The City of the Chasch, The Château d’If, The Dirdir, The Dragon Masters, Ecce and Old Earth, Emphyrio, The Face, The Gray Prince, The Killing Machine, The Languages of Pao, The Last Castle, To Live Forever, Marune, The Moon-Moth, The Palace of Love, The Pnume, Servants of the Wankh, The Star King, Throy, Trullion, Whyst.
• John Wyndham (John Beynon): Trouble with Lichen, Survival

TV Shows

• Bird of Prey
• Edge of Darkness

Movies

• Alien
• Aliens (not the director’s cut)
• Apocalypse Now
• Bladerunner (director’s cut)
• Gattacca
• Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan
• Soylent Green
• 1984 (the 1984 British version)