the novel has remained continuously in print, its premise, pace and furious conflict far outliving the Cold War and the Communist Menace. The Puppet Masters was supremely timely, supremely in tune with the zeitgeist when it first. Appearing first in Horace Gold's pioneering Galaxy Magazine. In a more immediate way, the novel is one of Heinlein's early masterpieces, an "adult" novel written at a time when he was primarily occupied with the YA novels for Scribners which were important and influential. Fears that "secret" Communists would infiltrate the government are certainly expressed in this novel with the "alien invaders" serving as surrogates for imagined or real Communists. Heinleins work is always about the people, the characters of any given situation, and not about predicting the future. It is the possibility based on one writers visions and dreams. The Puppet Masters was published in 1951 in the early, haunting years of the Cold War. The Puppet Masters has its failings, but science fiction isnt an exact science. The lead cannot even trust the commander of his team.his own father. The Puppet Masters, Heinlein's most inspired evocation of Cold War terror, is a crafty blend of love and rockets, of winking sexual titillation and gung-ho. The protagonist and narrator is the working head of the operations team which must stop the invaders and which can trust no one.since the President, the Cabinet, key leaders may have already been taken by the Puppet Masters. Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) was one of the Big Three of American science fiction writers, along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C.
They land at key points throughout the nation, attach themselves to human hosts and through them seize communications, industry and the government. The USA is in the grip of malevolent invaders from another planet.
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