*I Will Fear No Evil* was the end of Heinlein for me, after many (adolescent)
years of reading anything of his that I could find. In *I Will Fear No
Evil*, if I'm remembering correctly after so long, the old man doesn't just
switch genders. He has his brain transplanted into the body of a woman (I
think a woman with whom he was acquainted) who has just died. And his whole
personality survives--suggesting it was contained in his brain--as does
hers--suggesting it was contained in her body. After the implications of
this characterization dawned on me--using that overused metaphor in its full
sense of having light slowly emerge out of darkness--I couldn't read Heinlein
in the same way, or indeed at all, anymore.
Ann Wheeler
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