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Ace, Copyright 1987, 425 pages
ISBN: 0-441-74860-0
Read: April 2014
The story of Lazarus Long’s mother, and the last book that
Heinlein published. I get the feeling
that she’s his ideal woman. Pretty much
all of his hot buttons are present in the book, and are slap-in-the-face
obvious: Redheads are hot. Free love is
good. Alternative/open marriages are where it's at. Nudity as much as possible, please. Self reliance all the time. Fight in any/all available wars. Etc., etc.
I’d never noticed his (characters’) espousing of incest before, though. That was a new one. A fascinating view of the changes in tech and
society from the late 1800s through the mid-late 1900s by someone who lived it
and paid attention. Wonderful voice and
writing. It’s too bad there wasn’t a
story.
Rating: 2
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