by Robert A. Heinlein
Typical male adolescent fantasy where a decommissioned soldier, restless in France, signs up for a dangerous mission to rescue a damsel-in-distress.
Glory Road is about the closest Heinlein ever came to writing fantasy--but Heinlein being Heinlein, it's more a bland of sword and sorcery and straight science fiction--alternate universe travel to a reality where American ex-soldier Gordon gets to play knight to a fair princess. It's mostly fun, a...
This book is really two parts - a fantasy romp and then the after happily ever after portion. I read this as a teen, but somehow the second half didn't stick with me at all. Heinlein knew his sword play and proves it here, but I didn't enjoy the moral rants and there was far too much talk of spankin...
Apparently, this is one of Heinlein's few attempts at fantasy. He does it quite well and it is notable for two things. Firstly, Heinlein cannot resist the need to rationalise the miraculous. Magic arises from a more advanced mathematics and science than our own. Secondly, we see this fantastic world...
If you've read Glory Road, you may be amused by this Quiz question.
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