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Title: Maybe should have remained the lost novel
Review: From what I can gather from various sources (the jacket of this book, reviews of SF writers), Heinlein was one of the foremost science fiction writers of the 20th century. However, this book does little to bolster those claims.What at first seems to be a time-warp tale with endless possibilities morphs into a series of soliloquies, lectures and endless drivel. Some of the ideas and concepts are amazing (national credit, the emergence of television and e-mail) considering the time in which the book was written. However, the characters are fairly flimsy and their conversations hardly believable. The characters don't interact or converse as much as they spew endless monologues at each other. While at times interesting, it makes for a very difficult read.Introducing myself to Heinlein through this book was my mistake. Don't make it yours. Luckily, this one novel won't turn me off to Heinlein's work; I'll seek him out again.
