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From: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner)
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Subject: The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
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Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 14:56:05 EST
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The new Heinlein book is available for about $24 at most
serious bookstores now (e.g. W.H.Smith).  The name is
"The Cat Who Walked Through Walls", subtitled "A Comedy of
Manners".  The good news is that the first two thirds of
the book are very good.  The bad news is that the last third
is rushed and sketchy and incomplete (can you say "sequel"?).

My wife speculates that Heinlein is tidying up his literary
output while he has good writing years left (he is 80 or so).
To do so, he is tying together most of what he has ever written.
This means that Cat smacks a little of Number of the Beast towards
the end as many characters from many dimensions and many times are
brought together by the Time Patrol to do something.  I won't spoil
the book any further, but almost all of Heinlein's leading characters
make an appearance.  Think of such books as "The Moon is a Harsh
Mistress", "Friday", "The Rolling Stones", "Glory Road", and so on.

				Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo