According to their biographies, Destiny's favored children usually had their lives planned out from scratch. Napoleon was figuring out how to rule France when he was a barefoot boy in Corsica, Alexander the Great much the same, and Einstein was muttering equations in his cradle.
Maybe so. Me, I just muddled along....is the beginning to Robert Heinlein's Time For The Stars of 1956.
I have to say I was pretty amused by the sly way in which the narrator compares himself to Napoleon, Alexander, and Einstein. Two conquerors and a scientist. It's a boy's adventure, but for a boy good at math. We'll see if it can maintain that high level.
It is the cover that makes me curious. What's up with the creature.
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I don't know yet! I'm about halfway through and they've just left Earth. Looks rather dinosaur like, doesn't it?
DeleteI'll report back...
They do get to another planet with dinosaurs, but I didn't think it was the most important part of the story.
DeleteI liked this one. But then I liked all of Heinlein's juveniles. I wonder if you have found it at all dated. I am featuring A Murder for the Books by Victoria Gilbert. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteThis is the first of his juveniles for me--I've read a few of the adult ones before. Right now (halfway through) I'm liking it.
DeleteRobert A. Heinlein is quite a writer. I've been meaning to go back to some of his novels. Hope you enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I've read a few before but I missed them when I was a kid--mostly a mystery reader then and now.
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