Re: "The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes" by Robert A. Heinlein and an introduction by David Weber

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Date : 29. Apr 2024, 12:45:19
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:24:38 -0500, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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"The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes"
by Robert A. Heinlein and an introduction by David Weber
 
https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Pankera-Parallel-Novel-Universes/dp/
1647100291/
 
Book number four in a very loose series of six science fiction books.  I
read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by CAEZIK
SF & Fantasy in 2021 that I bought new in 2021.  The book was found in
Robert Heinlein's stored items in 2017 in many pieces and several
editors put it together over three years for publishing.  I plan to
reread "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" and "To Sail Beyond The Sunset"
soon.  I have yet to decide if I am going to reread "The Number Of The
Beast".
 
This book and "The Number of The Beast" are exactly alike through about
first third of the books.  After that, they are radically different.
The current theory is that this book was written first and Virginia
Heinlein vetoed it.  Plus there were copyright problems.  So RAH threw
away the middle and end and rewrote it.
 
I need to reread Doc Smith's Lensmen books.  I did not remember Worsel
the Venusian dragon Lensman nor many of the other Lensmen.  But I read
those books over fifty years ago and lost several of them when my house
was flooded in 1989.  Anyway, I really enjoyed the first third of the
book and the last third of the book.  The middle third dragged just a
little bit, mostly because I have forgotten most of the Edgar Rice
Burroughs's Mars books and I never read the Oz books.
 
If you are offended by sex, and I mean lots of sex, in a book then I
would advise you to stay away from this book and series.  Except for the
first book in the series, "Methusalah's Children".  All of the books,
except the first book, have group marriages in or mentioned in them
which was first expounded by Heinlein in "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress"
book.
 
The book series is 1. Methuselah's Children 2. Time Enough For Love 3.
The Number Of The Beast 4. The Pursuit Of The Pankera 5. The Cat Who
Walks Through Walls 6. To Sail Beyond The Sunset
 
There is a much better good review at "Long-Lost Treasure: The Pursuit
of the Pankera vs. The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein" by
Alan Brown
 
https://reactormag.com/long-lost-treasure-the-pursuit-of-the-pankera-vs-
the-number-of-the-beast-by-robert-a-heinlein/
 
Jo Walton says that "The Number Of The Beast" is not Heinlein's worst
novel by far, but, it is too long.  She does not have a review for the
Pankera book that I have found.
    https://reactormag.com/heinleins-worst-novel/
 
My rating:  5 out of 5 stars Amazon rating:  4.4 of out 5 stars (2,648
reviews)
 
Lynn

[minor spoilers]

After finishing _Citizen of the Galaxy_, I searched my Virginia collection
for POTP.  Not there.  Bought the hardcover to shelve with the other
volumes, as well as the kindle for instant gratification.  Finished POTP
yesterday, and I've got to say, it's better than NOTB.

Would love to learn why Mrs. Heinlein would "veto" the book.  Perhaps
it was the genocide?  The idea that an entire race of beings are _all_
deserving of death doesn't sit well with me...in fact, even detecting
a single "Panki" on a ship was grounds for blasting it out of the sky.
Wouldn't you try to warn the rest of the ship's complement first that
they had a spy onboard?

I daresay that if you take any population, it can be subdivided into
factions.  All they had seen were "evil" Pankera, but without looking for
any potentially "good" Pankera, Our Heros did themselves (and potential
allies) a disservice (to put it mildly).

Maybe I'm reading too much into it.

--
-v

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18 Apr 24 * "The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes" by Robert A. Heinlein and an introduction by David Weber24Lynn McGuire
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24 Apr 24 i i `- Re: "The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes" by Robert A. Heinlein and an introduction by David Weber1Lynn McGuire
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