@RUTGERS.ARPA:a_vesper%advax.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (04/23/85)
From: a_vesper%advax.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Andy V) > From: dolqci!mike@topaz.arpa (Mike Stalnaker) > Subject: Number of the Beast > Am I the only one who enjoyed TNOTB? I hope not. I can see > what a lot of folks are saying, but one thing that we should all > remember is that the whole book was deliberately done in a very > tongue-in-cheek manner. Anyone who has read a lot of Heinlein's work > should have recognized 75 or 80 percent of the characters in that > zoo of a last chapter. One character there that I couldn't > recognize was the dragon, Sir Isaac Newton. Anybody know where this > one came from?? I also enjoyed @i(The Number of the Beast), but the ending did not match the beginning. Whatever happened to all those "black hats"? Sir Isaac Newton comes from @i(Between Planets), a Heinlein juvenile about revolution on Venus. It is not in my library (sigh), so I can't give you publishing data. > From: Slocum@HI-MULTICS.ARPA > > BTW, can anyone tell me the name of the short story that has Andrew > Jackson Libby in it? It tells about his early days in some space > navy. His phenomenal mathematical ability is first noticed. This story is "Misfit" and is only 17 pages long. Quite enjoyable, but really only a tease. (Give me more!) It is in @i(Revolt in 2100) (Signet, 1954) which includes "If this goes on--" and "Coventry" also. The copyright page lists '54 -- R.A.H. and '39,'40 -- Street & Smith Publications, from which I guess it appeared in @i(Astounding) It is also likely to be in the large @i(Future History) book, as R.A.H. describes @i(Revolt in 2100) as "volume 3" of a future history series (Vol 1: The Man Who Sold the Moon; Vol 2: The Green Hills of Earth). Andy V