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Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. Working at Boss's whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Marjorie Baldwin: Friday's most common alias
- Boss: Friday's boss
- Pete: alias for Percival who was in charge of Friday's security
- Ellen: Ian Tormey's wife,Friday's friend
- Betty: Ian Tormey's sister
- Georges Perreault: Ellen's second husband
- Ian Tormey: an APV pilot, Friday's friend
- Shizuko: aka Tilly aka Matilda, Friday's maid on her flight to Botany Bay
- Anita: part of Friday's ex family
- Goldie: Friday's friend who used to work with her
Quotes edit
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““I’ll drink what you do. Anything but hemlock.””
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“Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.”
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“French is suited to lyric poetry, more so than is English – it takes an Edgar Allan Poe to wring beauty consistently out of the dissonances of English. German is unsuited to lyricism, so much so that translations fall sweeter on the ear than do the German originals. This is no fault of Goethe or Heine; it is a defect of an ugly language. Spanish is so musical that a soap-powder commercial in Spanish is more pleasing to the ear than the best free verse in English – the Spanish language is so beautiful that much of its poetry sounds best if the listener does not understand the meaning.”
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“Do you know what fun it is to buy a saucepan for your very own kitchen?”
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“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”
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“Once data of any sort go into the net, time is frozen. All that is necessary is to remember that all the endless riches of the past are available at any time you punch for them.”
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“The great trouble with religion -- any religion -- is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositiyyons by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence.”
Setting & Locations edit
- Winnipeg
- California
- Botany Bay
- Christchurch
- New Zealand
- Vicksburg
- San Jose
- Auckland
- Bellingham
- Vancouver
- Sydney
- Ceres
- British Canada
- Quebec
- Texas
- Nairobi
- Mississippi
- South Africa
- South Island
- Seattle
- Stationary Station
- Pajaro Sands
- Acapulco
- Earth
- Fargo
- Hong Kong
First Sentence edit
As I left the Kenya Beanstalk capsule he was right on my heels.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert A. Heinlein (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1982
ISBN: 034530988X
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1982
ISBN: 034530988X
Page Count: 368
Awards edit
- Nebula (Finalist, 1982: Best Novel)
- Prometheus Award (Finalist, 1983: Best Novel)
- Locus Science Fiction Award (Finalist, 1983)
- Hugo (Finalist, 1983: Novel)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3515.E288 F77 1982
- Dewey: 813.54
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