I actually first read it a few years ago. It's quite a remarkable novel, simply from a cultural-anthropology point of view. It crystallizes what "progressive white man" thinking looked like circa 1955, which does us a great historical service. And it's also a riveting story, because it's Heinlein. But there's an "Oh my god, he didn't really go *there*, did he?" moment about every three pages through the entire novel.

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
On 2/6/2018 12:32 PM, Catherine Berry wrote:
If Robert Heinlein can get away with having a nuclear explosion cause time travel, you can get away with having one cause tachyons. :)

 But I don't think I want to have to deal with an invasion by cannibalistic black Muslims...

;-)

I re-read that book several years ago, after reading it in high school...and boy...I never realized just how bad the bad guys were.

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