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* [[Fair for Its Day]]: Heinlein disliked the racism in the original story outline given to him so he "fixed" it. Unfortunately, while it was fair for its day for having a "good guy" be Asian, it still contains enough racism to make you cringe today. He considered the story an [[Old Shame]].
* [[A God Am I]]: All of the main characters have near-omnipotence thanks to their weapons, but Calhoun is the one who eventually goes crazy about it and actually thinks he's a divine in their scam religion.
* [[Hobos]]: A hobo character who stumbled upon the military base is a major character. The hobo used to be a graduate student who decided to research the hobo lifestyle. He discovered he liked it and gave up being a student to be a hobo. He also points out to the protagonist that hobos are not [[The Tramp|tramps]] or bums, and in fact lays out an entire social taxonomy of American transients, with [[Bindle Stick|bindlestiffs]] at the bottom and true hobos at the top.
* [[Old Shame]]: This was a rewrite by Heinlein of an unpublished (and, at least according to some sources, ''unpublishable'') story called ''All'' originally written by editor [[John W. Campbell]], who farmed it out to Heinlein; Heinlein later recalled that he had had to dramatically rewrite it to purge it of unashamed and overt racism, and that he did not "consider it to be an artistic success".
* [[Pig Latin]]: Used as a code, under the theory that non-native speakers wouldn't be able to understand it.
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