Friday
Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. Working at Boss's whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another...
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Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. Working at Boss's whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another threatens to explode in her face....
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345309884 (034530988X)
ASIN: 034530988X
Publish date: July 12th 1983
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
I read this the year it came out, when I was in my Heinlein phase. I do believe that I selected the book mainly on the titillating cover, but I think it would attract any adolescent SF reader. And, yes, compared to his works like [b:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress|3274505|The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress|R...
Piętaszek Jones to kobieta, którą moglibyśmy chyba swobodnie nazwać agentem, szpiegiem czy innym słowem określającym super wyszkolonego człowieka do zadań specjalnych, pracującego dla jednej z mnóstwa tajnych organizacji dbających o zachowanie jako takiego porządku na świecie. Przy okazji - Friday J...
Ta myśl dziś i każdego innego piątku lęgnie się w wielu głowach. Poprzedni piątek był szczególny, bo dzięki niemu paruset tysiącom uczniów szkół elementarnych i średnich przybyły dwa dni wakacji. Tak, piątek to dla wielu wstęp do dwudniowej laby. Ale ja dziś o innym Piątku, a właściwie o innej. Ten ...
Technically, I didn't invoke the Nancy Pearl 50-page rule so much as drop the book in disgust.I was told that this book had a kickass heroine (by my mother, I think), so I picked it up. I think I lasted about twenty pages. I was following the plot just fine, and then Friday gets raped. And she's ...
Friday was the first Heinlein novel I read. Late period Heinlein tended to be long on softcore sexual tease and it is far from his best work, but it did lead me to seek out his better novels such as Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.