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  • (ReacTor) Five Stories Featuring Highly Supportive Parents

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 23 16:18:06 2025
    Five Stories Featuring Highly Supportive Parents

    Encouraging the next generation of space pirates and superheroes...

    https://reactormag.com/five-stories-featuring-highly-supportive-parents/
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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to tnusenet17@gmail.com on Tue Jun 24 12:30:47 2025
    In article <103e5eq$20muc$1@dont-email.me>,
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 6/23/25 12:18 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Stories Featuring Highly Supportive Parents

    Encouraging the next generation of space pirates and superheroes...

    https://reactormag.com/five-stories-featuring-highly-supportive-parents/

    Hm...aside from your mention of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan, the only
    others that come quickly to mind are the Weasleys from the Harry Potter >series, and the Carpenters from the Harry Dresden series.

    Tony

    I would add _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_ (for some value of "supportive")
    & _The Rolling Stones_.
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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to tnusenet17@gmail.com on Tue Jun 24 14:11:49 2025
    In article <103e5eq$20muc$1@dont-email.me>,
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 6/23/25 12:18 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Stories Featuring Highly Supportive Parents

    Encouraging the next generation of space pirates and superheroes...

    https://reactormag.com/five-stories-featuring-highly-supportive-parents/

    Hm...aside from your mention of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan, the only
    others that come quickly to mind are the Weasleys from the Harry Potter >series, and the Carpenters from the Harry Dresden series.

    Yeah, I'm not steering more readers towards JKR.

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 24 14:13:27 2025
    In article <mbvk3nFt9fqU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <103e5eq$20muc$1@dont-email.me>,
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 6/23/25 12:18 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Stories Featuring Highly Supportive Parents

    Encouraging the next generation of space pirates and superheroes...

    https://reactormag.com/five-stories-featuring-highly-supportive-parents/

    Hm...aside from your mention of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan, the only >>others that come quickly to mind are the Weasleys from the Harry Potter >>series, and the Carpenters from the Harry Dresden series.

    Tony

    I would add _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_ (for some value of "supportive")
    & _The Rolling Stones_.

    The dad from TRS should be a list of parents who understand that at
    some point their boys will be serving long prison sentences... unless
    they get killed first.

    That said, he treats Meade poorly and the rest of the family isn't much
    better.
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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to tnusenet17@gmail.com on Tue Jun 24 18:28:42 2025
    In article <103ep1q$25kbv$1@dont-email.me>,
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 6/24/25 10:13 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    In article <mbvk3nFt9fqU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <103e5eq$20muc$1@dont-email.me>,
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 6/23/25 12:18 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Stories Featuring Highly Supportive Parents

    Encouraging the next generation of space pirates and superheroes...

    https://reactormag.com/five-stories-featuring-highly-supportive-parents/ >>>>
    Hm...aside from your mention of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan, the only >>>> others that come quickly to mind are the Weasleys from the Harry Potter >>>> series, and the Carpenters from the Harry Dresden series.

    Tony

    I would add _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_ (for some value of "supportive") >>> & _The Rolling Stones_. [Ted]


    I missed all Heinleins while I was a child/teen, and once I circled back
    in my 20s-30s, I learned that I'm pretty much Heinlein-blind. These two
    are not amongst the few I have read.


    The dad from TRS should be a list of parents who understand that at
    some point their boys will be serving long prison sentences... unless
    they get killed first.

    That said, he treats Meade poorly and the rest of the family isn't much
    better. [James]

    Interesting difference of opinion.
    Tony


    My recollection is that Stone continues a job he hates to support his family, and creates a family enterprise they can all work together. I recall mom
    as supportive, but setting definite limits. The twins can sell racy
    calendars, Good Hustle! But not *too* racy. You're 13!

    In HSWT the dad is Socratically supportive:
    "Dad, I want to go to the moon."
    "You have my permission"
    "But how?"
    "Well now, that sounds like your problem..."
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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Tony Nance on Tue Jun 24 19:24:17 2025
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> writes:
    On 6/24/25 10:13 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    In article <mbvk3nFt9fqU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <103e5eq$20muc$1@dont-email.me>,
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 6/23/25 12:18 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Stories Featuring Highly Supportive Parents

    Encouraging the next generation of space pirates and superheroes...

    https://reactormag.com/five-stories-featuring-highly-supportive-parents/ >>>>
    Hm...aside from your mention of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan, the only >>>> others that come quickly to mind are the Weasleys from the Harry Potter >>>> series, and the Carpenters from the Harry Dresden series.

    Tony

    I would add _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_ (for some value of "supportive") >>> & _The Rolling Stones_. [Ted]


    I missed all Heinleins while I was a child/teen, and once I circled back
    in my 20s-30s, I learned that I'm pretty much Heinlein-blind. These two
    are not amongst the few I have read.

    My father gave me _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_ when I was 11; it was
    a suggestion from one of his co-workers. Served as an excellent
    (and lifetime) introduction to science fiction and reading in
    general (although I had been a Tom Swift Jr. fan at that point).

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to tnusenet17@gmail.com on Tue Jun 24 20:33:08 2025
    In article <103ep1q$25kbv$1@dont-email.me>,
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 6/24/25 10:13 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    In article <mbvk3nFt9fqU1@mid.individual.net>,
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <103e5eq$20muc$1@dont-email.me>,
    Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 6/23/25 12:18 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Stories Featuring Highly Supportive Parents

    Encouraging the next generation of space pirates and superheroes...

    https://reactormag.com/five-stories-featuring-highly-supportive-parents/ >>>>
    Hm...aside from your mention of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan, the only >>>> others that come quickly to mind are the Weasleys from the Harry Potter >>>> series, and the Carpenters from the Harry Dresden series.

    Tony

    I would add _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_ (for some value of "supportive") >>> & _The Rolling Stones_. [Ted]


    I missed all Heinleins while I was a child/teen, and once I circled back
    in my 20s-30s, I learned that I'm pretty much Heinlein-blind. These two
    are not amongst the few I have read.

    I think it helps a lot to encounter Heinlein young and to have done so
    40 or 50 years ago. And pretty he appeals to boys more than girls.

    --
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 20 00:47:25 2025
    On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:24:17 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:

    I missed all Heinleins while I was a child/teen, and once I circled back
    in my 20s-30s, I learned that I'm pretty much Heinlein-blind. These two
    are not amongst the few I have read.

    My father gave me _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_ when I was 11; it was
    a suggestion from one of his co-workers. Served as an excellent
    (and lifetime) introduction to science fiction and reading in
    general (although I had been a Tom Swift Jr. fan at that point).

    Funny thing is I discovered Asimov's chemistry series and physics
    series before I discovered his SF but had already read most of
    Heinlein's "The Past Through Tomorrow" series before I discovered that
    Asimov also wrote SF (!) I then fell in love with the Foundation
    series notably the first section of Foundation and the Arkady Darrell
    section of Second Foundation - and even at 14 knew there was something
    very "off" about the relationship between her (which I don't think was voluntary on her part) and Stettin who I thought was one of Asimov's
    great villains. I had not at that point discovered Edward Gibbon so in
    my naivety though Asimov had come up with Bel Riose and the other late
    Empire characters on his own. Silly me.

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