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Subject: Re: JOB - Another Mini Review from a UK viewpoint
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In article <722@stc-b.stc.UUCP> pete@stc.UUCP writes:
>        Very readable, quite entertaining. I  haven't  read  much
>        RAH  recently; this was better than I was lead to expect.

As the Cybermen would say, excellent. I gave RAH one more chance to write a
decent non-juvenile book (i.e. one that wasn't self-satisfied, largely
pointless, womb-fixated or any of the other things I've hated his work for
since after Glory Road (the last one I really enjoyed)) He finally did it.
Even I say unto you, RAH RAH RAH.

>        One alternate universe is much  like  another.  Shouldn't
>        Alec  have  noticed environmental differences? (More/less
>        atmospheric pollution, etc.)

I think the similarity of the universes picked was intentional. Besides,
would Alex have known what pollution was unless he came upon somewhere really
rancid?

>        Born-again Christianity isn't such a big deal here - this
>        makes  the  discussions  in the first half pretty boring.

Oh, I don't know. I allowed RAH these little foibles. Besides, one of the
important things was how Alex felt about Christianity. And they didn't go on
half as long as Heinlein's discussions normally do. (Remember LL in TEFL when
he's waffling on about genetics with regard to the baby. Yaaaawwwwwwn.

>        Heaven/Hell sequence is good fun. 
For the first time (several times) RAH made me laugh out loud. It's good to see
the senility isn't complete yet :-)

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