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Title: A political exercise that begins as a novel
Review: "For Us, The Living" starts as a novel, but becomes... well... something else.The first and final chapters could be the beginning and the end of a decent Robert Heinlein novel; it's the headache-inducing middle that is the problem.I suppose that he must have had many different ideas, but could not decide which one to settle on and flesh out. The kindest thing that I could say is, probably, that I'm glad this was his first try, so he could see what to fix later.I *like* the book (at least the SF parts of it), but trying to cram so many confusing and heavy socio-economic-political ideas into barely 250 pages is problematic at best, and takes an exceptional writer to pull it off. Heinlein is exceptional, but in trying this hard so early, he nearly overbalances himself.Not bad for a first try, but he does get better.
