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Subject: Re: Re: Friday, by Heinlein, + more - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 07:04:43 EST
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fortune!rpw3    Feb  7 03:29:00 1984

Let's hear it for "Friday"! I was beginning to worry about him after
"The Number of the Beast" faded into unintelligibility (started fine, then
got weeeiiirrrddd), but "Friday" brings back the good old secret agent stuff
of "Gulf" and "The Puppet Masters" (updated to scary plausibility, if you've
been reading the noises about seccesion lately, see Naisbitt's "Megatrends").

My one gripe is that the ending is just a bit lame. But that sudden cut away
from the action to a look back from a future quieter time in the lives of the
characters is something RAH has used/abused more than once (see "The Moon Is
A Harsh Mistress", "Glory Road", and even "Puppet Masters", for examples), neh?

[Hmm.. was the mishmash at the end of T#otB the beginning of the trend
 we've seen with Niven ("Engineers") and Asimov ("Foundation's Edge" and
 "Robots of Dawn") on the part of authors to try and make ALL of their
 various plot lines come together? Is T#otB a satire, then? I mean, just
 this morning Lazarus was complaining to me that R Daneel was probably
 really a Pak protector, or vice-versa, and knew nothing of psycho-history
 beyond what Jorj X. McKie had brought back from Dosadi.]

Rob Warnock

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