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Don't count out the underdog... Two classic short novels by Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction’s Grand Master.
Waldo
North Power Air is in trouble. Their aircraft are crashing at an alarming rate and no one can figure out the cause. Desperate for an answer, they turn to Waldo, a crippled misanthropic genius who lives in a home in orbit around Earth, where the absence of gravity means that his feeble muscle strength does not confine him helplessly in a wheelchair. But Waldo has little reason to want to help the rest of humanity - until he learns that the solution to Earth’s problems also holds the key to his own.
Magic, Inc.
In a world where almost everything is done by magic spells, Magic, Inc., under the guise of an agency for magicians, is systematically squeezing the small independent magicians out of business. Then one businessman stood firm. And with the help of an Oxford-educated African shaman and a little old lady adept at black magic, he was willing to take on all the demons of Hell to resolve the problem - once and for all.
©1940, 1942, 1950 Robert A. Heinlein, © 2003 by The Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust. Introduction © 2014 by Bill Patterson. Afterword © 2014 by Tim Powers. (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Good nostalgia; pretty good YA sci-fi
- By Mark on 06-18-18
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Have Space Suit - Will Travel
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Mark Turetsky
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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First prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the moon. The consolation prize was an authenticspace suit, and when scientifically minded high school senior Kip Russell wonit, he knew for certain he would use it one day to make a sojourn of his own tothe stars. But "one day" comes sooner than he thinks when he tries the suit on in his backyard - and finds himself worlds away, a prisoner aboard a space pirate's ship.
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Wry humor obliterated by inept reading
- By Scott on 07-10-14
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Job
- A Comedy of Justice
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Richard Powers
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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After firewalking in Polynesia, fundamentalist Minister Alexander Hergensheimer never saw the world the same. Now called Alec Graham, he was in the middle of an affair with his stewardess, Margrethe, and natural disasters kept following them. First, there was an impossible iceberg that wrecked the ship in the tropics; then, after being rescued by a Royal Mexican plane, they were hit by a double earthquake. To Alex, the signs were clear that Armageddon and the Day of Judgment were near.
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OK, So I Get The Joke Already...
- By Vincent Tume on 07-22-09
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The Menace from Earth
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Rob McQuay
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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In The Menace from Earth, Robert A. Heinlein, a master of science fiction, presents startling stories of time and space. On the day past tomorrow, time has ended and man has begun his endless journey out into the universe. For those on the Pluto colony, Earth Satellite Base holds the only possible reprieve from a terrifying death sentence. Meanwhile on Earth, alien intelligence prowls the skies, kidnapping people for its own inhuman amusement.
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Middlin' Heinlein
- By W. Seligman on 08-01-05
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Between Planets
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Don Harvey is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation - yet no single planet can claim him as its own. His mother was born on Venus and his father on Earth, and Don himself was born on a spaceship in trajectory between planets. When his parents abruptly summon him away from school on Earth to join them on Mars, he has no idea he's about to be plunged into deadly interplanetary intrigue. But the ship Don is traveling on is unexpectedly diverted to Venus, where the colony has launched a revolution against Earth's control.
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Like a breath of fresh air
- By MikeFarr on 03-28-17
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Methuselah's Children
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them; nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality…
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A delight to revisit a science fiction classic
- By Anne on 02-16-13
Three by Heinlein was my first SciFi book
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Fun Stories
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What disappointed you about Waldo & Magic, Inc.?
Audible not letting it playWhat was one of the most memorable moments of Waldo & Magic, Inc.?
When I bought it.What didn’t you like about MacLeod Andrews’s performance?
Do not know have yet to hear him.If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Waldo & Magic, Inc.?
The part when audible sends an email to me.Any additional comments?
I searched Audible's site and found that they limit burning the book to just once. I haven't even been able to listen to the two books that were down loaded.Audible will not allow it to play
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It's amazing that these stories were written in the early 1940s. They seem modern, and with just a very few exceptions, stories that might appear in a movie or TV show today.
I found the analysis at the end very interesting and insightful. If you are a Heinlein fan, give these stories a try. You'll see just how far ahead he was of his time.
Imaginative and Pioneering
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"Waldo" is delightful! This is one of Heinlein's earliest books. In future Novels, where Heinlein mentions the moon, he refers to the moon as "Luna" almost every time. His writing also refers to other planets with the mythological name. One example is when he was writing of Jupiter, he refered to it as being "Jovian". I always found that to be delightful. This book refers to "Lunopolis". Nice to see his writing when it evolves.
Heinlein got some of the details of weightlessness or micro gravity correct, but he also got some details very, very wrong. In particular, I find it quite unbelievable that Waldo could go from being an invalid to living in a space station for 17 years and then to come back to Earth and be able to lift himself on one elbow. We know that when astronauts spend only a few months in space, they can barely walk when they first return to Earth.
Oh well, I'm being a perfectionist about a book written 20 years before the first man flew in space. It's still plenty thought provoking, like Heinlein always does!
"Magic, Inc." was even better! Enjoy 😉
Maybe some spoilers ahead.
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very different
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A young teen might really like these though- Heinlein is endless inventive.
It was better when I was younger *sigh*
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Delightful combo
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I always believe a wise man should glance over his sholder before changing lanes. Glance back in history before making the same mistakes or repeating them.
Heinlien removes science of the 1950s, to tell a good story of science fiction, but needed to remove science fact (still too new in a time line and in scope) and uses magic to replace science fact in electrigal grids, electronics of heated plates in picture tubes, voice coils, amplification, circuit boards, etc… Way, way too new in history to make the magic believable back then. But, he took a gamble with his story (1st of it's kind) and got published - won!
Write a story like that today, it would suck big time! He took a gamble, won!
The complex world's of science,
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great presentation of a classic
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