Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
To my mind, Heinlein's last good book was "Stranger in a Strange Land." Even then his writing was starting to get flaky at the edges. As I recall, that's the book in which his überman wise philosopher character, Jubalation T. Cornpone or whatever his name is, makes a big point of _dictating_ everything.
Jubilation T. Cornpone is an incompetent Confederate general sung about in the 1956 musical [[Li'l Abner (musical)]]. :-)
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