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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
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Subject: Re: Number of the Beast
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 14:10:53 EST
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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 Newton is from the book 'Between Planets'.  He  is  Venusian
native who is a member of the venusian equivalent of the royal family.
This is one of Heinlien's 'juvenile' novels, but don't let  that  stop
you  from  reading  it.  I  enjoyed  all  of  these novels, except for
'Rocket Ship Galileo'.  One thing I wondered about the Heinlien  novel
'The  Moon  is a Harsh Mistress' (my favorite RAH novel), is the Hazel
Meade Stone in it susposed to be the same one as the Hazel Meade Stone
in 'The Rolling Stones'?

Actually I didn't think TNOTB was all that bad, though it isn't one
of my favorites. If you want to discuss a clinker, how about 'I Will
Fear no Evil'.

						Joel Upchurch