
Beyond This Horizon
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Peter Ganim
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Never really got off the ground
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good and bad
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The narrator was an absolutely 1st rate voice actor, really fantastic. His natural voice, stilted when reading the general narrative of the text was a little strange but I got more comfortable with it as I went along.
An important detail of Heinlein's style is that he often uses a character's name very specifically as a synonym to convey their characteristics. It occurred to me to look up the meaning of the names of the children in the last chapters when one was given the peculiar name of Theobald. It means 'brave, bold people'. Fitting. I doubt it was an accident.
To wrap it up, this is classic Heinlein. Hard sci fi. Very heavy on genetics, A trope that shows up in his later work.
Heinlein's First Novel, not his Best Novel
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If Heinlein would have stuck to genetics or westerns this might have been an ok book. The story has almost no flow, it is full of lots of stutters and starts. It is like Heinlein could not figure out what he wanted to write about. He had several issues, but never stuck to any. The book has almost no plot. Chapter three sounds almost exactly like a two hour lecture I had in college biology. It talks about sperm and eggs and how they form babies.
There is a character who jumped to this time in a time machine from 1926. Everyone seems to know about it, but nothing is done to figure out how to build a time machine. Towards the end a kid develops telepathy, but little is done with it. There is some talk on reincarnation.
Heinlein can give you something to think about even when he is just throwing thoughts together. One statement he makes that I really liked was, "Women will forgive anything, otherwise the human race would have died out long ago." He also explains why we have not discovered life in space and why aliens have not discovered us. He says that it took man four centuries to cross the America's, and given the size of space, it just has not happened yet.
If you have never read RH, please don't start with this book. Heinlein has written some really good stuff, may I suggest you start with "The Green Hills of Earth" or "Starship Trooper" or "Starman Jones.
Women will forgive anything
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Not Worthy of a Hugo
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