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attn: heinlein fans

POSTED BY: MENTISMORTIS
UPDATED: Thursday, September 21, 2006 04:57
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:07 AM

thought someone here might be interested in this.

i just got an email from amazon letting me know that there is a new heinlein book coming out.

its a collaboration from beyond the grave. spider robinson has taken some of the grand master's notes and outlines and filled in a story.

it comes out on oct. 17 and i guess i'll have to buy it. can't resist anything attached to the heinlein name.

i just hope its better than "for us,the living". as a fan i was able to see certain nuggets of the man's future potential in it, but otherwise, it was crap.

rob

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"Everytime a dog salivates, a behavioral scientist must ring a bell," Robert Heinlein, " I Will Fear No Evil"

You can't find your waitress with a geiger counter.
She hates you and your friends and you can't get served without her.

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Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:31 AM

DECLAN

Dear Mentismortis:

Thank you very much for the information about the new Heinlein-Spider Robinson book. To assist anyone else interested, here is the Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/Variable-Star-Robert-Heinlein/dp/076531312X/sr=8
-2/qid=1158848161/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-1532880-0168767?ie=UTF8&s=books

It certainly sounds interesting. I can't get enough of the Heinlein "juveniles" which are anything but juvenile.

Spider is good writer and a true Heinlein fan. If anyone can channel the Grand Master, it is him.

By the way, Amazon lists the book as available Oct 17, but when you get to page that displays the book it says available now. Also, Amazon lets me add it to my shopping cart. And, there are reader reviews. So, maybe the book is available now...

If anyone knows more, please post.

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"'Course, there are other schools of thought."

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Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:31 AM

DECLAN

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Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:54 AM

EMMARIGBY

Oooh, thanks for letting me know about this, I'm a HUGE fan!

I just hope it's better than the Douglas Adams version, The Salmon of Doubt, which I wasn't very impressed by.

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Hissssssssss!

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Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:57 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

It will also be available from the Science Fiction Book Club. I've got it in my shopping cart on their site, and they say it will ship Oct. 6.

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