re: #76 Scottish Dragon

All of Heinlein’s material after 1965 or so. I Will Fear No Evil etc.

That’s exactly the book I was thinking of, but it’s true of a lot of others. Fear of crime, because of the unexpected rise, was rampant at the time. And by 1970 when he published that, he was already an Old White Guy.

There’s also the fact that most of SciFi then was written by White Guys, which also skewed things a bit. (probably also true now).