Has anyone read much of his stuff? He made a big splash around the 70s with a critical work on Robert Heinlein that dared to be less than unswervingly adulatory, and an award-winning novel called Rite of Passage that was rather unusual in SF for following the coming-of-age of a young girl. A young girl in a generation ship, naturally. I'd read half of this book some months back, then lost it during an overnight flight on business - dangit! It was very well written, with a smmoth narrative flow and a compelling sense of character, and it really felt rotten to loose the book. Still, the plane was alarmingly ricketty (surely those wings aren't *actually* meant to flap!) and I was glad to get out alive. I've picked up a replacement copy of the book and intend to plunge back in. Expect more details as I do. Broadly, I can say it's the sort of thing you'd like if you enjoy Ursula le Guin's SF.
Here's hissite, which includes that entire Heinlein book, Heinlein in Dimension, other critical work on Heinlein, some fiction and other assorted bits and bobs.
