Against all odds, I rather liked this book. The problems: There were too many loose ends, Lazarus felt like a cardboard cutout of a Heinlein character rather than a real Heinlein character, the ending felt like a spin of the Animanicas' wheel of morality, and dammit, it was too short. The good stuff: Heinlein's writing style has a way of drawing me in and getting me excited about his story even when there are problems and I really wish that he had taken more time and written this to novel length.

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