Friday. First Paperback Edition and First Printing

Heinlein, Robert A.

ISBN 10: 034530988X / ISBN 13: 9780345309884

Edité par Ballantine / Del Rey, New York, 1983

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Very Good. See scans and description. New York: Ballantine / Del Rey, 1983. First Edition and First Printing Thus. Cover art by Michael Whelan. Robert Heinlein's 'Friday'. 12mo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 357 pp. + A Note About the Author + Reader Form. Very Good; nominal edge wear, spine ends touched, light cover crease at lower right, moderate toning to the pages. See scans. L86.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Friday. First Paperback Edition and First Printing
• Éditeur: Ballantine / Del Rey, New York
• Date de parution: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 034530988X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780345309884
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Illustrateur: Michael Whelan (cover)
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

"AS JOYOUS TO READ AS IT IS PROVOCATIVE . . . Friday is all woman . . . She is as strong and resourceful and decisive as any Heinlein hero; in addition she is loving (oh, yes) and tender and very, very female."
--Los Angeles Times
Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss." Operating from and over a near-future Earth, where chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on assignment at Boss's seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America's disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.
Not since Valentine Michael Smith, hero of the bestselling Stranger in a Strange Land, has Robert Heinlein created a more captivating protagonist. Friday proves once again why Robert Heinlein's novels have sold more than 50 million copies, have won countless awards, and have earned him the title of Grand Master of Science Fiction.
"FRIDAY IS A SUPERBEING. . . . Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world of chaotic ferocity and intrigue, she can think better and make love better than any of the normal people around her."
--The New York Times Book Review

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to Astounding magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre.

He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Starship Troopers (1959), Double Star (1956), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future.

Robert A. Heinlein’s books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. By the time he died, in 1988, it was evident that he was one of the formative talents of science fiction: a writer whose unique vision, unflagging energy, and persistence, over the course of five decades, made a great impact on the American mind.