How to find a cure has so many interesting variants and the more creative people think about finding a solution to this annoying infiltration parasite symbiont problem, the more interesting plotlines evolve, be it focused on technical, biological, magical, or mental eradication of that nasty mind bugs. Worldbuilding and action are hold small, rare, and I often asked myself while reading why Heinlein didn´t go the info-dumping way in both directions, not just with monologues, but with worldbuilding too. The agent, spy, government conspiracy, aspect plays a small role too, but it´s more of a vehicle to give the characters options to talk too much. I don´t know how many mind control, body horror, parasite,… tropes had already been established at the moment Heinlein wrote this book, but it might certainly have had a massive impact on many pandemic, alien invasion, horror, and sci-fi works that followed and it has more suspense and settings than some of his other works. Heinlein, did you really combine a very sexist plot element with the assumption that no gay people exist as the icing on the cake of your very awkward, biased, and wanna be subliminal writing?
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