he felt had “rejected discussion of his ideas” with fans for decades. Campbell thought that Heinlein was frightened of the implications of his own work, writing to E. E. Smith: He’s scared blue-with-chartreuse-spots of psi, and he’s got precognition and doesn’t-for-God’s-sake want to know it. It was all right writing “Solution Unsatisfactory” until the damned thing came true. Now he wants to stay way, way, way away from anything that might turn out to be true!
