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	• Friday Robert A. Heinlein Del Rey, 1983 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 87 reviews view larger image
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Heinlein, Sex, and a Pretty Cyborg

Hey, what more do you need? Listen, this is not going to win any Hugo awards, but it is a fun, enjoyable futuristic adventure through Heinlein's wild imagination. A rollicking Bond-like female cyborg protagonist loves and kills her way through a typically Heinleinian future, replete with rogues, double agents, robots, despotic leaders, and that rare good human.

Any book that can advertise with a straight face that it was Playboy Book Club's alternate selection of the month can't be all bad.

Everything you could want in a book and more

I came across the paperback version of this book in the $1 bin of a thrift store and was surprised I hadn't heard of it before. I thought this might have been a rare dud in his career, but thankfully, I was wrong. This could be considered a sequel to his novella "Gulf", and actually features Kettle Belly Bailey, and makes reference to Joe and Gail, the main protagonists in Gulf.

Within the first chapter of the book, you realize that this is not a typical Heinlein book. The primary character, Friday, is a young, artificially created human female. A departure for him considering most of his stories are from the point of view of young adolencent males. A few of the early events in the book will give some readers a shock (read it and you'll understand why), but shortly after, the book takes off into a typical Heinlein story arc of action and adventure.

Heinlein explores several subjects in this book ranging from communal marriage, overt racism, authoritarianism, genetic engineering, and sexual promiscuity.

Overall, a very good book and worth well more than the $1 I paid for it

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Revisiting Friday

I first gave Friday an admittedly cursory reading nearly twenty years ago and set it aside unfinished. In retrospect, that has turned out to have been a bit of good luck.

Returning to it recently gave me the opportunity to once again experience Heinlein's voice in previously unread material. Although this isn't as clear and focused as Heinlein's best work, it is good solid read.

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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 threatens to explode in her face....

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