I Will Fear No Evil

Name: I Will Fear No Evil
Rating: 4.220588207244873 (68 reviews)

Robert A. Heinlein

Apr 1987 · Penguin

4.2

68 reviews

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512

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The brilliantly shocking story of the ultimate transplant from New York Times bestselling author Robert A. Heinlein.

As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein's awesome masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything. Even a new life in the body of a beautiful young woman.

Once again, master storyteller Robert A. Heinlein delievers a wild and intriguing classic of science fiction.

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4.2

68 reviews

A Google user

August 5, 2015

The plot is interesting and provocative but the mind banter between Johann and Eunice gets too repetitive distracting a la Jack Bauer from 24 constantly proclaiming "I promise you" or "need satellite imagery stat". Otherwise, it's an enjoyable Heinlein-esque romp if you can handle his sense of a free love society.

2 people found this review helpful

Philip E. Taylor

October 25, 2014

Interesting notions that for me just didn't quite work...

5 people found this review helpful

Preston Taylor

September 16, 2015

An in-depth stroll through the motives behind love, fear, jealousy, and hope/wonder. Science fiction that explores human emotions.

1 person found this review helpful

About the author

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.

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