A perfect partner-as long as she didn’t talk.” She kept her weight on her own feet, danced close without snuggling, and knew what I was going to do a split second before I led it. Today most girls who even attempt ballroom dancing drape themselves around your neck and expect you to shove them around the floor. I went on waltzing while taking another look down her evening formal. The thing to do with a silly remark is to fail to hear it. She wasn’t old enough to remember the pulps. That’s what she said: the oldest cliché in pulp fiction. So here it finally is, the other half of Heinlein's audacious experiment: a parallel novel about parallel universes.“He’s a Mad Scientist and I’m his Beautiful Daughter.” A recent re-examination of these fragments made it clear that, put together in the right order, they constituted the complete novel that is finally being published as The Pursuit of the Pankera.Īs both books are "parallel" books, they carry the subtitle A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes. Over time the manuscript was largely forgotten, although it survived in fragments. The companion parallel book was never published, and there have been many competing theories as to why (including significant copyright issues in 1977 due to some of the material used in the book). Although some later passages may be found in both books, most of them are, fascinatingly, given a totally different context or perspective. From that point on, the plot lines diverge completely. The novels share the same start, but as soon as the Gay Deceiver is used to transport them to a parallel universe, each book takes the readers to a totally different parallel world. He effectively wrote two parallel novels about parallel universes. However, unknown to most fans, Heinlein had already written a "parallel" novel about the four characters and parallel universes in 1977. Heinlein's The Number of the Beast, originally published in 1980, follows the adventures of Zeb, Deety, Hilda, and Jake when they are ambushed by the alien "Black Hats" and barely escape with their lives on a specially configured vehicle (the Gay Deceiver) that can travel along various planes of existence, allowing them to visit parallel universes. The Number of the Beast, by the legendary author of the classic bestseller Starship Troopers, is one of the most audacious experiments ever done in science fiction.
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