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Originally Posted by mightymem  I read it and must say it was a very thought provoking book, Heinlein used the american revolution as his concept for the book, and the charcters are quite amusing and interesting. |
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Originally Posted by mightymem I read it and must say it was a very thought provoking book, Heinlein used the american revolution as his concept for the book, and the charcters are quite amusing and interesting. |
Not much of the concept. Certainly, the colonies breaking loose from the parent country; but that happened all over the place, not merely the untied states. And the States reserved its terrorist actions for officials in the occupied country; they disn't drop rocks on their homes (Oh, Manny's troops were terrorists, all right; one of the questions the book poses is the moral position of terrorism in defending one's own future. The book also comtains (rather unusually for Heinlein) a fairly serious technical error, or misunderstanding; the linear accelerator did not require steel, it would have worked fine with any conducror (Laithwaite used to send aluminium bits driving into the plaster to demonstrate this, and yes, he had read the book, and agreed with me)
Still, the book is one of his greatest, I just wish I could remember who I lent my copy to most recently.