Heinleinian Factions
Juvies: Fans of the Heinlein Juveniles. (Rocketship Galileo, Space Cadet, Have Spacesuit Will Travel, etc.) Seriously Hard Science types,mostly apolitical but rabidly anti-Nazi. "Going Steady" is as far as most of this type will *ever* go, if they have any social life at all.
Longs: Fans of Time Enough For Love, Methuseulah's Children, and the Future History. Somebody out there is building a Colony Ship for the Stars, and it's likely to be this type. Biomods tend to be life-extending (they think; too short a baseline to tell, really...). This type takes the Old Man's statement "Specialization is for insects" *seriously* and are usually found with five or six heavily-marked-up textbooks in tow. Some experiment with "alternate lifestyles" such as polyamory.
Nesters: Fans of Stranger in a Strange Land, most can be found on Mars looking (searching desperately) for the Martians. Not to be confused with the Church of All Worlders (who are mostly sane,) these Fen take Stranger as divinely inspired Gospel handed down from On High. Weddings and Water-Sharings are safe to attend (if you don't mind nudity leading into Other Things as the party goes on into the night,) but *never* eat off the buffet at funerals. 'Nuf said.
Juvies: Fans of the Heinlein Juveniles. (Rocketship Galileo, Space Cadet, Have Spacesuit Will Travel, etc.) Seriously Hard Science types,mostly apolitical but rabidly anti-Nazi. "Going Steady" is as far as most of this type will *ever* go, if they have any social life at all.
Longs: Fans of Time Enough For Love, Methuseulah's Children, and the Future History. Somebody out there is building a Colony Ship for the Stars, and it's likely to be this type. Biomods tend to be life-extending (they think; too short a baseline to tell, really...). This type takes the Old Man's statement "Specialization is for insects" *seriously* and are usually found with five or six heavily-marked-up textbooks in tow. Some experiment with "alternate lifestyles" such as polyamory.
Nesters: Fans of Stranger in a Strange Land, most can be found on Mars looking (searching desperately) for the Martians. Not to be confused with the Church of All Worlders (who are mostly sane,) these Fen take Stranger as divinely inspired Gospel handed down from On High. Weddings and Water-Sharings are safe to attend (if you don't mind nudity leading into Other Things as the party goes on into the night,) but *never* eat off the buffet at funerals. 'Nuf said.