The person who wrote this little The Rolling Stones vignette really has Heinlein’s writing patterns down pat:
“Chief Engineer Grandma?” Meade said sweetly, ducking her head into the room. “Would you please tell Buster to stay out of my garden? He may think he’s clever, but he’s killing my broccoli. I’d tell him myself, but he obviously doesn’t listen to me.”
Hazel looked across the chessboard at Lowell. “Best do as she says, Junior,” she commented.
“But she’s wrong about the salinity gradients-” he protested.
“Grandmother dearest,” Meade said, her hands on her hips. “Why does everyone aboard this ship assume I am incapable of doing math?”
“Beats me,” Hazel said. “I tutored you myself; you can handle a differential with the best of ‘em.”
Really. The voices, the way the characters speak, that mixture of banter and infodumping, it’s all prime Heinlein and Kalirush has done a great job capturing it. I wish they’d do more Heinlein stories.
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