The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 320 pages and is available in paperback format. Tor is proud to return this alltime classic to hardcover to be. Robert a heinlein books biography and list of works. 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 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. I lived a healthy life, exercising and getting tan every morning, sleeping afternoons, playing poker at night. Published as a serial in the magazine of fantasy and science fiction july, august and september 1963 issues. Free download or read online glory road pdf epub book. Heinlein wrote glory road to ridicule the high fantasy genre. Theres a lot more windy pontificating on heinleins hobby horses than i remembered, and the whole novel has a makeshift. 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. Glory road is, in my never humble opinion, one of the finest books ever written. Heinlein bibliography includes 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections published during his life.
There are many people who do not know the odds poor, but computable for improving a poker hand in the draw, but are anxious to learn. Glory road is a science fantasy novel by american writer robert a. However, glory road is still good enough for 4 5 stars, better than some science fiction novels. It was nominated for the hugo award for best novel in 1964. The first edition of the novel was published in september 1st 1963, and was written by robert a. The main characters of this fantasy, science fiction story are e. Fiction july september 1963 and published as a book later the same year. Heinlein 19071988 was productive during a writing career that spanned the last 49 years of his life. Glory road project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks.
The fairy godmother department watched over me across the indian ocean, up the red sea, and clear to napoli. I read all of the heinlein novels as i was growing up, including glory road which i have since reread several times. Four films, two tv series, several episodes of a radio series, and a board game derive more or less directly from his work. Heinleins one true fantasy novel, glory road is as much fun today as when he wrote it after stranger in a strange land. It has long been my own personal favorite and the older i get the more i find to. It is a different sort of scifi novel, i notice that. Glory road is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically heinleinian sting in its tail. Heinleins books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. By comparison, glory road is a novel with the semblance of traditional fantasy tropes quests, swords, dragons though with additional sf.
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