Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Re: Friday, by Heinlein, + more - (nf) Message-ID: <2462@fortune.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 07:04:43 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2462 Posted: Tue Feb 7 07:04:43 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 14:16:17 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 28 #R:nsc:-60100:fortune:9900028:000:1352 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 UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065