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Posted 2015-02-24 6:33 PM (#9713 - in reply to #9182)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		I just joined the Pick and Mix challenge. I got kind of confused and added the books I've written reviews for and then realized that we don't need to write reviews, but should discuss the books here. Is that right? Well, anyhow I'm hearing an audiobook version of Heinlein's Double Star. I expect to finish it tomorrow. I picked it because it is on the WWE list that I am closest to finishing.

I like Heinlein. I've read several of his books and a couple are favorites and I disliked none. Double Star is a little different. It's in a science fiction setting, with folks traveling to Mars and to the Moon, but it really isn't a science fiction book. It's more of a lighthearted intrigue. with a little reworking could have been set in a contemporary non-science fiction setting. I'm enjoying it.

Whenever an author writes things that happen in the future, he risks being dated because who can predict where technology goes? I found it amusing that Heinlein makes big use of Farley files, so named for a member of the Eisenhower administration from way back in the mid-twentieth century. Of course, that's when Double Star was written, and who can remember Farley?

Another thing I thought was a little corny but perhaps very futuristic in the mid 50s: A spaceman's toast: he lifts his glass and says "Hot jets."

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