Glory Road Audiobook (Free)

E. C. “Scar” Gordon was over the French Riviera dealing with a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn’t abandoned his habit of scanning the personals in the paper. One ad specifically leapt out at him:

Are you a coward? This is not for you personally. We badly need a brave guy. He should be 23 to 25 years outdated, in perfect wellness, at least six ft tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English with some French, proficient with all weaponry, some knowledge of executive and mathematics essential, about Glory Road willing to travel, no family or emotional ties, indomitably courageous and handsome of encounter and figure. Long lasting employment, high pay, glorious adventure, great danger. You need to apply in person, 17 rue Dante, Good, 2me étage, apt. D.

How will you not response an ad like that, especially when it seemed to describe you perfectly? Well, except maybe for the “attractive” part, but that was in the eye of the beholder anyway. So he visited that apartment and was greeted by the most amazing female he’d ever fulfilled. She appeared to possess many brands but agreed he could contact her Star. A fairly appropriate name, as it proved, for the empress of twenty universes. And she sends him on the experience of an eternity.Robert A. Heinlein’s one true fantasy book, Glory Road is really as very much fun today as when he wrote it after Stranger inside a Strange Land. Heinlein demonstrates himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules, and the result is interesting, satirical, fast-paced, funny, and immensely readable-a favorite of most who have read it. Glory Street can be a masterpiece of escapist entertainment using a typically Heinleinian sting in its tail.