I'm just in the process of re-reading a book by Robert Heinlein called Methuselah's Children. At one point, a character in the book quotes a 'Bill Gresham' as using the phrase (I'm not quoting exactly) 'Find out what a man wants and offer it him - he'll geek'. Can anyone think of a probable connection between Heinlein, and the Bill Gresham who was the former husband of Joy? Could just be a made-up name.
I'm fascinated by similarities between Heinlein and Lewis both in imaginative invention and in ways of thinking, even though they are poles apart in their personal beliefs. Compare, for instance, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land with Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy. Obviously some of the parallels can simply be explained by what Lewis explicitly identified as common 'types' , 'shadows' in universal human mythology, and others can be attributed to Heinlein's conscious intention to parallel Christianity, but I think some of the imaginative interpretation is uncannily similar. One example - Heinlein's incorporeal 'Old Ones' compare to Lewis's eldila.
Anyone want to pursue this one?