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A Vietnam veteran idling away his time on the Isle du Levant, Oscar's eye is caught by the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, sleekly muscled and with regal bearing. When she offers him a job with great adventure and great risk he blindly accepts, little realizing just what an incredible... read more
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Cyril "EC" Gordon just got discharged from the Vietnam War and is considering what to do with his future. He sees and ad which asks: "Are you a coward?" He responds to the add and finds out that the placer of the ad is a person he knows and goes by the name of Star. Star asks Gordon if he... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Oscar Gordon: Born Evelyn Cyril Gordon, a college football hero with fencing skills
- Star: Name most commonly used by the Empress of the Twenty Universes. Her official title is Her Wisdom CCIV, and her given name has numerous variations, including Aster, Esther, Estrellita, Ettarre.
- Rufo: Star's grandson and a comparative culturologist
- Eater of Souls: Guardian of the Egg, manifested as a 17th century swordsman
- Muri: Add a description of this character.
- Muldoon
- Joan
- Jocko
- Gates
- Helen Of Troy
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“I know, as the prime lesson of my profession, that good intentions are the source of more folly than all other causes put together.”
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“Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things — ways that work but often we don't know why.”
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“An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey; I have none.”
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“Military policy is like cancer: Nobody knows where it comes from but it can't be ignored.”
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There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man’s opinion is as good as another’s.
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“‘Dum vivimus, vivamus!’—‘While we live, let us live!’
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Most so-called social scientists seem to think that organization is everything. It is almost nothing—except when it is a straitjacket. It is the incidence of heroes that counts, not the pattern of zeros.”
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“Women and Cats do as they please, and men and dogs might as well relax to it.”
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Logic is a way of saying that anything that didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow.
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Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
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For the one thing that stood out as this empirical way of running an empire grew up was that the answer to most problems was: Don’t do anything.
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To claim to ‘respect’ and even to ‘love’ the great mass with their yaps at one end and smelly feet at the other requires the fatuous, uncritical, saccharine, blind, sentimental slobbishness found in some nursery supervisors, most spaniel dogs, and all missionaries. It isn’t a political system, it’s a disease.
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As courage is bravery in the face of fear, virtue is right conduct in the face of temptation. If there is no temptation, there can be no virtue.
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, nor fission bombs, not anything—you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Nevia
- Heidelberg
- Singapore
- Europe
- America
- Alaska
- California
- Southeast Asia
- New York
- Wiesbaden
- Germany
- France
- Seattle
- Florida
- Center
First Sentence edit
I know a place where there is no smog and no parking problem and no population explosion . . . no Cold War and no H-bombs and no television commercials . . . no Summit Conferences, no Foreign Aid, no hidden taxes-no income tax.
Table of Contents edit
None
Themes & Symbolism edit
- Glory Road: The term Glory Road is an allegory to Life's Adventures
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert A. Heinlein (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: G. P. Putnam
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1963
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 304
Publisher: G. P. Putnam
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1963
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 304
Awards edit
- Hugo Award (Finalist, 1964: Best Novel)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PZ3.H364 Gl PS3515.E288
- Dewey: 813.54
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