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4.0 out of 5 stars Buy it for "Gulf" Oct 13 2002
By A Customer
Format:Mass Market Paperback
"Gulf" is a short novel gem, and a slightly sideways-in-time prequel to "Friday." Witten during the period when Heinlein was writing books like "The Puppet Masters" (which it has similarities to), and "The Door Into Summer", it's a good story, well told.

"Jerry Was a Man" is a lesser work, but interesting in that it argues that humanity will constantly have to revisit the slavery thing as our abilities to create non-human servants will outstrip our wisdom in their use. Maybe old hat now, but it wasn't in the 1940's. I'd be willing to be large sums that whoever wrote the Star Trek:TNG story about Data being, leagally, a Man, had read this once apon a time. Very similar viewpoints.

The other two stories are among Heinlein's poorest and keep this from being a 5.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good example of early Heinlein May 20 2001
By bernie TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Mass Market Paperback
There are two major Heinlein camps and a few crossovers. This may account for the wide variation in what people think of this book. Artists in any field paint what is real, and then what is real to them. Realists like the early works that they can relate to on their daily lives and see the later works as off the deep end. Others see the early works as silly or something that they could do better and the later works as profound and insightful. They see two people instead of one in the process of transition.

The reason I bought this book is for a story that deals with transition. "Lost Legacy" (1941) I do not want to go into too much detail as it is fun to have the story unfold in its time. However the story speculates as to what the so-called unused portion of our brain is for. Heinlein is not the first to speculate, but he does put together a great story combining many previous speculations.

While enjoying his story, look at the rudiments that will be used in later Heinlein writing, [Stranger in a Strange Land] ISBN: 0808520873 (see my review May 22, 2000). Even some of the names are the same.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Jan 21 2001
By Bill R. Moore
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Aside from the supremely corny cover art (almost enough to keep one from buying it) that pervades this particular series of Heinlein novels, this is a truly great book. Of the four included stories, the best of them is the leadoff, Gulf. It is a short, thought-provoking story that was entertaining and kept me reading. However, I think if it was expanded a bit more it could have been on of RAH's all-time great short novels. The ending of the story, in particular, was a little too abrupt. Of the remaining stories, Elsewhen is an entertaining "What if?" romp. Lost Legacy, the other short novel, is a very nice story as well. Despite it's greatness, I read the story with some disdain, as it focuses on a theme (what would happen if we found out how to use the remaining parts of our brain that we don't currently use) that I thought I had come up with on my own. Seems RAH already thought of it, small wonder. But I disgress... Jerry Was A Man is the only story in the collection that I don't think is particularly interesting, but it still has it's merits and doesn't hold down the rest of the book. Like Heinlein always did at his best, this book is extremely thought-provoking and may make you re-examine what you thought was possible in the world around you. Often the book leans more toward fantasy than science fiction, which may turn off some, but this is definite reccommended reading for Heinlein fans.
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