Wonderful condition! Delivered when promised, and well packaged. A marvelous story of future romance with a lot of inner/outer space. This book made my imagination take off and want to live in the future of this book. Please, if your imagination is lagging read this book, it is hilarious and yet serious. A good read.
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Typical Heinlein
Just finished reading Robert Heinlein’s novel “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.” Heinlein is considered the Grand Master of science fiction. This physical book (a Berkley 1986 published edition), was handed to me by another Heinlein fan because I’d mentioned I’d never read it. Now I have.Typical of Heinlein (deceased May 1988), a fast paced futuristic space adventure ensues. The two main characters are well developed and fully rounded. Action is quick and consistent with (most) of today’s physics laws. Since this story is sci-fi, many new and unheard of laws are present and highly used; as in the twists-and-turns of past and future time travel, time loops, and numerous side-shifted timeline adventures, all of which somehow contribute to the whole.It gets highly confusing toward story’s end. Again, typical of Heinlein, which is all part of the fun.The only thing I’m still confused about is the cat who walks through walls. There is a cat/kitten (feline) character in the story—named Pixel—towards the end, but it is strictly a pet. Though there are hints from other characters who don’t always know how it gets into places it does.There is also the quantum mechanics thought experiment of Schrodinger’s cat, which illustrates the paradox of quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, because of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. When one looks in the box, the observer sees the cat either alive or dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality resolves into one possibility or another.This is also the pivot upon which Heinlein’s story turns.Either way, the story is fun.
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Jean RouxReviewed in France on March 21, 2016
le chat de Schrödinger reste dans la boite.
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