by Robert A. Heinlein
(Original Review, 1980-08-31)Robert Heinlein's agent had hoped to get $1 million for his latest novel, "The Number of the Beast." What he had to settle for was half that, and not from his accustomed publisher nor from any of the houses with heavy SF publishing programs. The U.S. book rights went to ...
Nutshell: libertarian builds time machine, elects to use it for the noble humanitarian purpose of fulfilling oedipal desire.Lucked out and got this first edition at a library sale; it includes original interior art by one Richard Powers. The art is the normal ensemble, listed in order of ascending ...
Can't believe I dragged this piece of crap around for years before reading it. It was so bad, from almost the first sentence. "He's a Mad Scientist and I'm his Beautiful Daughter."That's what she said: the oldest cliche in pulp fiction. She wasn't old enough to remember the pulps.The thing with a si...
Late period Heinlein, a lot of pointless running around and pontificating. A car gets turned into a device for visiting alternate realities including fictional worlds.
I feel very conflicted about this book. It's one of the ones that I've re-read every year or two; it's large, and once you start it it's very hard to put down. Heinlein, whatever his faults, was a storyteller - and a gripping one.But his faults are largely on display in this book.When I was a young ...
I feel very conflicted about this book. It's one of the ones that I've re-read every year or two; it's large, and once you start it it's very hard to put down. Heinlein, whatever his faults, was a storyteller - and a gripping one.But his faults are largely on display in this book.When I was a young ...
There's this terrible thing that happens to some science-fiction writers near the end of their careers: they want their oeuvre to make sense, with all the books related to each other in some complex structural way. I mean, who do they think they are, Balzac or Powell or someone? Get a grip, guys. Yo...
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