Nope.
Are you sure it’s Heinlein?
For Us, The Living had the “person from the past wakes up” element, though I don’t remember the society being heavily armed, and it was a full-length novel that I’m pretty sure never got published with other stories between the same covers.
After that, the pickings start to get slimmer. Door Into Summer, for the “sleeper awakes” element, but no heavily armed society? Puppet Masters had heavily armed vigilantes at one point, but no person waking from the past.
Any more details?
A text search of my Heinlein ebook collection [large but not comprehensive] finds brassards in two…
Puppet Masters has ‘VIG-brassards’ for the heavily armed anti-slug vigilantes.
Most men were wearing straps-codpieces, really-as the cops had been, but I was not the only man in New Brooklyn stark naked to his shoes. One in particular I remember; he was leaning against a street roof stanchion and searching with cold eyes every passer-by. He was wearing nothing but slippers and a brassard lettered with “VIG”-and he was carrying an Owens mob gun under his arm.
Beyond This Horizon has ‘brassards-of-peace’ for the minority who chose to go unarmed.
They were exchanging bows and were about to resume their seats, when a shouted remark from the balcony booth directly opposite interrupted them. “Where’s your brassard?” They both looked toward the source of the disturbance; one of a party of men - armed citizens all apparently, for no brassards were to be seen - was leaning out of the booth and staring with deliberate rudeness.
As well as the police-and-you-get-both bit: “The occasional man with a brassard was almost certainly out at this hour because his business required him to be. The same rule applied without exception to the few armed men who also wore brassards - proclaiming thereby their unique status as police monitors, armed but immune to attack.”
And in Horizon, the police are armed and wear brassards, and the hero and his girlfriend are endangered by a group trying to kill them
What’s the point of the brassard? Is it supposed to mean that nobody’s allowed to shoot at you? If so, does that mean that everybody is allowed to shoot at anyone who’s armed? If not, what would wearing one do except to say that you’re easy game, in which case why would anyone wear one?
In Horizon, someone who wears a brassard is safe from being shot in matters of honor, but is not likewise not a full adult who can assert a right to not be insulted, etc.
I guess that has gotta be it, altho the wiki article doesnt mention the gun angle much.
I remember reading a book, which would have come out in the late Seventies or early Eighties, about a crewed mission to the Sun.
There’s a race of flat, intelligent, extreme-gravity-and-heat-resistant aliens which lives on the surface of the Sun. Astronauts from Earth are able to study and communicate with the aliens from their heavily-shielded ship, which can get very close to the Sun.
Near the end of the mission, one of the aliens, studying a female astronaut who has become a friend, realizes that she is in the very early stages of breast cancer. The alien is able to use solar energy to somehow destroy the still-tiny cancer and cure her. The astronaut has a brief moment of pain in her breast but is then fine.
Ring a bell for anyone?
You are remembering some details of Dragon’s Egg by Robert L. Forward (and misremembering others).
Yeah, I remember that. It was a neutron star. The sequel “Starquake” wasn’t as good.
Ah, thanks! Yes, I think that’s it: Dragon's Egg - Wikipedia
Okay, this is a science essay, not a story, but written by a noted SF Author. I think it was Clarke, or possibly Asimov.
It was speculating about the possible future development of a device similar to a Star Trek style replicator. The quote was along the lines of, the first one will be very expensive to build. The second one will be free.
It may have been written before Star Trek TNG was broadcast, and probably didn’t use the word “Replicator”.
I have a hard time imagining Clarke or Asimov either one making that big of a blunder.
What blunder?
I suspect that Chronos means that while the development costs for the second assembler may be zero, the material and energy costs still exist. This quote sounds familiar, btw, but I can’t quite place it
Plus amortization, wages for the operator, rent for the place the replicator operates in…
And don’t even get me started on work permits, regulatory approval and taxes!
Is there truly nstaafl?
That’s what Mannie tells me.