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Posted 2015-02-25 2:19 PM (#9724 - in reply to #9182)
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA		Finished Double Star by Heinlein. I think the only reason this novel is science fiction is because it was written by Robert A Heinlein and that's what he wrote. It reminds me very much of the movie Dave, in which a small town small businessman, a dead ringer for the president, is drafted to stand in for the president who has had a stroke. Nevertheless, it won the '56 Hugo and is on half a dozen of our WWE SF lists.

Continuing my earlier topic above, another anachronism from the 1950's is the use of a slide rule. Who can imagine using a slide rule today, much less in our space faring future?

The audiobook version of the book is read by Tom Weiner. His voice characterization of the narrator, Lawrence Smith,aka Lorenzo Smythe, aka The Great Lorenzo, sounds much more prissy or foppish in the beginning of the book than at the end. And that seems to fit with Smythe's character, who starts out seeming vain and priggish. As the book progresses he seems to become more talented and competent.

I could hardly classify this as a Great Book, but it is a very enjoyable read.

Edited by spectru 2015-02-25 2:24 PM

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