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Subject: Sir Isaac Newton, Dragon and Andrew Jackson Libby
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From: a_vesper%advax.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Andy V)

> From: dolqci!mike@topaz.arpa (Mike Stalnaker)
> Subject: Number of the Beast
>         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 deliberately done in a very
> tongue-in-cheek manner.  Anyone who has read a lot of Heinlein'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 Isaac Newton. Anybody know where this
> one came from??

I also enjoyed @i(The Number of the Beast), but the ending did not
match the beginning.  Whatever happened to all those "black hats"?

Sir Isaac Newton comes from @i(Between Planets), a Heinlein juvenile
about revolution on Venus.  It is not in my library (sigh), so
I can't give you publishing data.

> From: Slocum@HI-MULTICS.ARPA
>  
> BTW, can anyone tell me the name of the short story that has Andrew
> Jackson Libby in it? It tells about his early days in some space
> navy. His phenomenal mathematical ability is first noticed.

This story is "Misfit" and is only 17 pages long.  Quite enjoyable,
but really only a tease.  (Give me more!)  It is in @i(Revolt in 2100)
(Signet, 1954) which includes "If this goes on--" and "Coventry" also.
The copyright page lists '54 -- R.A.H. and '39,'40 -- Street & Smith
Publications, from which I guess it appeared in @i(Astounding)

It is also likely to be in the large @i(Future History) book, as R.A.H. 
describes @i(Revolt in 2100) as "volume 3" of a future history series
(Vol 1: The Man Who Sold the Moon; Vol 2: The Green Hills of Earth).

Andy V