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Time for the Stars
by Robert A. Heinlein
- Good afternoon, may I talk with Professor Einstein?
- Speaking.
- Ah, I just wonder if I could have a few minutes of your time sir, this won't take long...
- And who are you, young man?
- Oh, I'm sorry, I should have said. My name's Bob Heinlein. You wouldn't have heard of me...
- On the contrary, I know exactly who you are. I bought a copy of your novel Space Cadet for my godson's eleventh birthday, and he was most complimentary. In fact, he said it was the best thing he'd ever read.
The rest of this review is in my book What Pooh Might Have Said to Dante and Other Futile Speculations
by Robert A. Heinlein
- Good afternoon, may I talk with Professor Einstein?
- Speaking.
- Ah, I just wonder if I could have a few minutes of your time sir, this won't take long...
- And who are you, young man?
- Oh, I'm sorry, I should have said. My name's Bob Heinlein. You wouldn't have heard of me...
- On the contrary, I know exactly who you are. I bought a copy of your novel Space Cadet for my godson's eleventh birthday, and he was most complimentary. In fact, he said it was the best thing he'd ever read.
The rest of this review is in my book What Pooh Might Have Said to Dante and Other Futile Speculations
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I think it's an important novel, marking the transition from juvenile-Heinlein to proto-dirty-old-man-Heinlein. Someone must have written a paper about this...
The exact moment at which Heinlein's output started to move from exciting old-school adventure to nauseating latter-day crank socio-political tract? Super!
Thank you guys! I keep meaning to read that Heinlein biography that came out a few years ago, but I still haven't got round to it...
ahahahaha YES.Now, now, Mr. Heinlein, let's not get too carried away by an eleven year old's literary preferences.
Brill!
yeah pretty much. I just finished this and I got to say, even even when the, niece I was hitting on the mc I was waiting for him to say "no bc that would be creepy" not "sure lets go get married RIGHT NOW"
After this, it got considerably creepier. You may prefer not to read I Will Fear No Evil ((view spoiler)) or Time Enough for Love ((view spoiler)).
I'm not familiar with the book, so I don't know whether the full version of the review is a precis or a parody.
Why be embarrassed? Surely that emotion should either be for Heinlein, or even for me (for finding the plot rather intriguing!).
I suppose my embarrassment was for the fact that I thought this book was perfectly okay when I read it in my early teens...
Oh Heinlein, so predictable.