This LAcon V panel discussion will be held in the Palos Verdes room of the Anaheim Hilton.

Glen Olson, Terry Brussel-Roger’s co-author of Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement, moderates this panel, which includes Terry Brussel-Rogers.

Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s wasn’t just a hub of fandom, it was a magnet for prominent SF professionals whose work helped define the Golden Age. This program focuses on Robert A. Heinlein, whose move to LA immersed him in local fandom and war-era research culture, and the meetings of his Mañana Literary Society. It will also highlight the editors, illustrators, and pulp authors who made SoCal a pressure point for modern SF. Questions and comments on Heinlein’s later books on polyamory are welcome.

Heinlein wrote For Us The Living in 1938, though it wasn’t published until 2003. It had plenty of poly oriented material in it long before the word was coined. It also contains fascinating bits which later became full novels prominently portraying the concept of multiply committed relationships, group marriage and group living.