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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Number of the Beast
Message-ID: <5739@duke.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 10:51:22 EST
Article-I.D.: duke.5739
Posted: Tue Apr 16 10:51:22 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Apr-85 00:45:11 EST
References: <299@dolqci.UUCP>
Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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Summary: 

In article <299@dolqci.UUCP> you write:
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>	Am I the only one who enjoyed TNOTB?  I hope not.  I can see
>what a lot of folks are saying, but one thing that we should all
>remember is that the whole book was deliberitly (sp) done in a very
>tounge-i-cheek manner.  Anyone who has read alot of Heinlien's work
>should have recognized 75 or 80 percent of the characters in that zoo of
>a last chapter.  One character there that I couldn't recognize was the
>dragon, Sir Issac Newton. Anybody know where this one came from??
 
Sir Issac was a major character in the book "Between Planets" ; he was
a member of the dominant race on Venus.  "Between Planets" was a pretty good
juvenile (which I still re-read on occasion), and was interesting in
that it seemed not to be connected very strongly to the future history.
I remember that when I read "Friday" I ran into some internal evidence
that connected "Friday" not only with "Gulf" (pretty explicit, that)
but with "Starman Jones" and "Between Planets", so it looks like a
whole 'nother future history in there....

By the way, I rather liked "Number of the Beast" myself, but then I
liked "I Will Fear No Evil" as well.

Another by the way:  there were not only a lot of Heinlein's other
characters in the end of NotB, but a number of real people as well:
the "Sir Bela" that was mentioned is Poul Anderson in SCA guise.

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>  Mike Stalnaker  UUCP:{decvax!grendel,cbosgd!seismo}!dolqci!mike
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			Charlie Martin
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