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The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes by David Weber, Robert A. Heinlein

3.0

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I did NOT expect to ever read another new Robert A Heinlein novel, and here one is! Well... newish. A variant on The Number of the Beast. This is not my FAVORITE RAH novel - I actually loved his short stories more, and various earlier works, and Stranger in a Strange Land - but, again, words written by RAH that I HADN'T READ! Wow! When I read Number of the Beast, like a few other books he wrote such as Friday, I didn't have much patience for them, they felt too silly. Far more fantasy than science fiction. This doesn't really pretend to be anything other than fantasy, at heart. You just need to approach it differently, with a more open mind. It makes me want to read Edgar Rice Burroughs, and E. E. "Doc" Smith, and Frank L. Baum. Not sure I will get around to those, but any tribute work like this has succeeded if it made me WANT to, right? It's also pretty clear this was written in the '60s or '70s, and RAH's military experience is evident here too. Very enjoyable!