Glory's Road (Robert A Heinlein)

[ray gower]

It started with a personal add in the Tribune: Permanent employment, high pay, adventure, danger... apply in person.
Gordon got the job and is catapulted into a new universe of intergalactic chivalry and knight errantry. His task to recover the Egg of the Phoenix, the key to the Empire of the Twenty Universes. With the beautiful Star (The Empress) and a valet, Rufo (Her grandson) he sets out on the road to glory.
Then finds that the old world he knew is no longer a place to live.

A sort of Heinlein 'goes into' book. In this it is an attempt at pure fantasy, but still manages a good deal of moral procrastination (which gets a little chewy at points) and a good look at the variety possible in political and social alternatives.

[zatchstar90]

this is a lot like "stranger in a strange land" but it is more fantasy.

this is the first of all the heinlein books that i read

[Cerium]

I didn't read it at first because the cover was terrible, while Heinlein novels are not known for good covers this one is just unbelievable. When I did read it I liked it a lot but not as much as some of my favorites. Worth reading though.

[Connavar]

This one will be my third RAH book. Simply cause i want to see Heinlein trying Fantasy when he is known and is great at social Hard SF.


I dont have a problem with his so called preaching. He moved me with his ideas social and political ones in Starship Troopers and Moon is a Harsh Mistress

[GOLLUM]

I've got the book but yet to read it.... Down TBR pile, down boy!!...

[Connavar]

You got be better to manage you TBR

My RAH books are always at the top of TBR pile !

[cape_royds]

An interesting part of the novel is that Heinlein follows up with the anti-climax of what happens to the Hero after the Quest is fulfilled. He's just as misfit and shiftless as when he was "on the beach" at the beginning. And then his wife gives him immortality, while he has no idea what to do with his life!

It's not exactly a voyage from the Grey Havens!

[Urlik]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

This one will be my third RAH book. Simply cause i want to see Heinlein trying Fantasy when he is known and is great at social Hard SF.

although it is classed as fantasy, it can almost pass as SF and RAH gives social and moral values some serious questioning, as he does in so many of his books.

entertaing on so many different levels as well

[j. d. worthington]

And, of course, with the ending Heinlein was giving a nod to E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, as well....