Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading glory road. His followup novel, glory road, was not precisely heinlein s first fantasy piecehis 1959 novella the that was precisely the conundrum that future scifi grand master robert heinlein faced in 1962, after winning the award for stranger in a strange land, and he responded to the problem by switching gears a bit. Heinlein s one true fantasy novel, glory road is as much fun today as when he wrote it after stranger in a strange land. Apr 23, 2016 unusually for heinlein, glory road is generally regarded as a comic fantasy, clearly a lighter book than much of his material around this time. Fairy tale spinning in space for the young in heart and years by the twotime winner of the hugo award. I wanted raw red gold in nuggets the size of your fist and feed that lousy claim jumper to the huskies. Fifty years on the glory road adventures fantastic.
Cover painting by tim white for the book stranger in a strange land by. Nor was it the first adult novel by heinlein i read. Heinlein proves himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules, and the result is exciting, satirical, fastpaced, funny, and tremendously readable a favorite of all who have read it. His book stranger in a strange land was at one point the ultimate novel and the ultimate philosophical work, in my humble 17 year old mind. Robert heinlein friday robert heinlein glory road robert heinlein grumbles from the grave robert heinlein have space suitwill travel robert heinlein i will fear no evil robert heinlein job a comedy of justice robert heinlein methuselahs children robert heinlein orphans of the sky robert heinlein podkayne of mars. Some of his most popular works include glory road, as well as his controversial bestsellers starship troopers, stranger in a strange land, and. She takes him to another planet to retrieve the sacred egg of the phoenix which enables her to become the empress of twenty universes. Robert heinlein collection free pdf ebooks downloads. Gordon, aka oscar and star aka empress of the twenty universes in their attempt to recapture the egg of the. His followup novel, glory road, was not precisely heinlein s first fantasy piecehis 1959 novella the that was precisely the conundrum that future scifi grand master robert heinlein faced in 1962, after winning the award for stranger in a strange land, and he. Robert anson heinlein 19071988 was an american sciencefiction writer. Stranger in a strange land robert a heinlein audiobook part.
Nov 24, 2010 glory road is the only book of his ive read lately, and the narrator there seems, broadly, to mirror many of heinleins established views the aristocratic outlook you mentioned, and the general libertarianism he often espoused, as well as his more admirable views against racism, etc. By comparison, glory road is a novel with the semblance of. Heinlein robert stranger in a strange land abebooks. Orphans of the sky, 1963 fixup novel comprising the novellas universe and common sense, both originally published in 1941 glory road, 1963hugo award nominee, 1964. Glory road kindle edition by heinlein, robert a download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Glory road is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically heinleinian sting in its tail. Glory road by robert a heinlein hardcover book club. Heinlein wrote glory road to ridicule the high fantasy genre.
Heinleins one true fantasy novel, glory road is as much fun today as when he wrote it after stranger in a strange land. The elements of epic in the great tradition are here but changed by the talent and magic of robert heinlein to create a story as original and striking as his classic stranger in a strange land. Heinlein himself reported that the book only took several weeks and was a lot of fun to write. This book was something of a sensation when it was first published around 1963. Well, this experiment can be considered a great success and glory road is a fascinating adventure well worth your time. He was a fourtime winner of the hugo award for his novels stranger in a strange land 1961, starship troopers 1959. Just to put that in historical context, the militaristic starship troopers was published 1959, the seminal stranger in a strange land in 1961 and podkayne of mars in 1963.
Still, glory road was different, more fantasy than sf and heavy on dialogues attacking the social and political mores of the day. A heinlein audiobook heinleins juveniles book 4 full. Fiction july september 1963 and published as a book later the same year. Feb 11, 2018 glory road robert heinlein matilde abram. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword. Glory road by robert heinlein first us edition2nd printing. Robert heinlein was of course already a great science fiction writer one usually at odds with the establishments pc dogma of the day. Heinlein s wit, wisdom, social commentary and humor are on full display in this brilliant fantasy novel that presents other worlds to illuminate and evaluate our own.
Footloose scar gordon is chosen as the knight errant and later husband of the beautiful star. Alan nourse 1928 1992 was a medical doctor and a science fiction writer who is listed as a source of help for heinleins article are you a rare blood. Its not really considered one of heinleins top novels, certainly not like stranger in a strange land. It was nominated for the hugo award for best novel in 1964. Glory road free pdf, fb2, fb3, txt free download ebook. Glory road is quite different from what you might expect of a novel by robert heinlein. Written in 1962, this is heinleins only fullfledged fantasy novel, and that in itself makes it an interesting read. Following on a couple of years after stranger in a strange land, this is the older. I must have read it a dozen times in the space of a few years. Heinlein faced in 1962, after winning the hugo for stranger in a strange land, and he responded to the problem by switching gears a bit. What glory road was, however, was the first adult heinlein i read that.
Glory road was nominated for the hugo award in 1964. The beginning and the ending both have the seeds of a good book. But, alas, the middle of glory road is page after page of this sort of thing. Often called the dean of science fiction writers, he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time. More of a fantasy adventure than science fiction, it seems to me that heinlein was very much in a transitional phase while writing this book. But to give him credit, heinlein does go for a somewhat nontraditional denouement and clumsily pokes at the happilyeverafter ending to see if it holds up. Heinlein proves himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules, and the result is exciting, satirical, fastpaced, funny, and tremendously. Glory road by robert heinlein 1st 1963 from appledore books. Stranger in a strange land, 1961hugo award, 1962 reprinted at the original greater length in 1991 podkayne of mars, 1963. Glory road is a science fantasy novel by american writer robert a. Heinlein proves himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules and the result is exciting, satirical, fastpaced, funny and tremendously readable a favorite of all who have read it. Glory road followed closely on the heels of stranger in a strange land, but it is a much different book.