tedi@dartvax.UUCP (Edward M. Ives) (04/18/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** The character Sir Isaac Newton (I think Heinlein may have warped the spelling a little) is from a really old Heinlein novel, Red Planet. In this, a young man takes a voyage to Mars and goes through all kinds of adventures, and he meets a 6-foot tall walking, talking lizard, who becomes his mentor. It seems the boy has a ring his father gave him which holds some kind of key to the Martian colony rebellion against THE STATE. The lizard's name was Sir Isaac Newton (incidentally, if anyone here reads BOY's LIFE, the scouting mag, they did a cartoon adaptation of the novel about three years ago.) - Ted Ives (astrovax,ihnp4)|dartvax|tedi (The above opinions are solely the author's, and sas such, I hereby claim all the credit: but if anyone takes offense, I was probably drunk at the time...)
chabot@miles.DEC (Bits is Bits) (04/23/85)
Judging by the number of replies, I'd guess that Sir Isaac Newton was a
character in _Mindkiller_ by Spider Robinson. :-)
In other words, I hope this flood of replies ('though the answer is welcome)
dwindles soon...
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