_The Great Heinlein Mystery: Science Fiction, Innovation and Naval Technology_ by Edward M. Wysocki Jr.

[Lynn McGuire]

_The Great Heinlein Mystery: Science Fiction,
Innovation and Naval Technology_ by Edward M.
Wysocki Jr.:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Heinlein-Mystery-Innovation/dp/1477410201

I have not read this but found the concept
interesting.

Has anyone here read this and recommend it ?

Lynn

[Bill Snyder]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:24:27 -0500, Lynn McGuire <l...@winsim.com>
wrote:

No, but if you're going to get it, buy it quick. The "new" copies
start at $20.95, and the "used" ones at $59.24. Clearly this is a
book that really ages well, and you need to get in on the ground
floor.


--
Bill Snyder [This space unintentionally left blank]

[bpral...@aol.com]

On 25 Sep., 16:07, Bill Snyder <bsny...@airmail.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:24:27 -0500, Lynn McGuire <l...@winsim.com>
> wrote:
>
> >_The Great Heinlein Mystery: Science Fiction,
> >Innovation and Naval Technology_ by Edward M.
> >Wysocki Jr.:

> >    http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Heinlein-Mystery-Innovation/dp/147741...

>
> >I have not read this but found the concept
> >interesting.
>
> >Has anyone here read this and recommend it ?
>
> No, but if you're going to get it, buy it quick.  The "new" copies
> start at $20.95, and the "used" ones at $59.24.  Clearly this is a
> book that really ages well, and you need to get in on the ground
> floor.
>
> --
> Bill Snyder  [This space unintentionally left blank]

I've read it and can highly recommend it as fascinating research
report. He investigates all the current military technology the
device might have been, so you get an overview of the technological
background not only of Heinlein's fictional device, but also of Golden
Age Astounding stories.

[Bill Higgins]

On Sep 30, 9:42 am, bpral22...@aol.com wrote:
> On 25 Sep., 16:07, Bill Snyder <bsny...@airmail.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:24:27 -0500, Lynn McGuire <l...@winsim.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > >Has anyone here read this and recommend it ?
>
> > No, but if you're going to get it, buy it quick.  The "new" copies
> > start at $20.95, and the "used" ones at $59.24.  Clearly this is a
> > book that really ages well, and you need to get in on the ground
> > floor.

Mysterious are the ways of the machines. The book, nominally bearing
a $24.95 list price,
was $20.95 earlier this summer, then shot back up to $24.95. Today it
is $17.96-- the best price seen so far, so maybe now is a good time to
buy it, if you're so inclined.

In e-mail, Ed Wysocki has indicated that he finds this price
fluctuation as mystifying as I do.

(Bill Patterson, author of Heinlein's biography, writes:)

> I've read it and can highly recommend it as fascinating research
> report.  He investigates all the current military technology the
> device might have been, so you get an overview of the technological
> background not only of Heinlein's fictional device, but also of Golden
> Age Astounding stories.

I, too, have read it. See my customer review at Amazon's site:
<http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Heinlein-Mystery-Innovation/dp/
1477410201>

Note the "Look Inside!" feature, which allows you a taste of Dr.
Wysocki's prose for free.
--
Bill Higgins | "It seems Hollywood always lags behind
Fermilab | print science fiction by a generation or so,
| but it does seem to be progressing.
Internet: | The quality of stories that Hollywood
| has tried to screw up recently
hig...@fnal.gov | has improved considerably."
| --Patrick Nielsen Hayden