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“His best since The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.” Jerry Pournelle

“A charming protagonist in a story as sleekly engineered as a starship. This one should fly.”—Publishers Weekly

“One of Heinlein’s best, which is to say one of the best in all of Science Fiction—terrific story with a superbly realized heroine and world.”—Poul Anderson

Friday is a secret courier and ardent lover. Employed by a man she only knows of as “Boss”, she is given the most awkward and dangerous cases, which take her from New Zealand to Canada, and through the new States of America’s disunion, all the way out into the stars and the new colony of Botany Bay.
Thrust into one calamity after another, she uses her enhanced wits and very many skills to evade, seduce or even kill her way out of any sticky situation she finds herself in. For she is both superior and inferior to the average human.

As an AP—artificial person—the best humanity has to offer has been written into Friday’s DNA. Yet she is often treated like a second class citizen—if she were ever able to claim citizenship. Her mother was the test tube and her father the knife, as the saying goes, so she has less rights than the biologically-born human, and no soul, according to the church.

But in Friday Heinlein has created one of the most enlightened, warm, engaging and humane characters in the science fiction field, gifting us a novel of female empowerment that was well ahead of its time.

“One of Heinlein’s best, which is to say one of the best in all of Science Fiction—terrific story with a superbly realized heroine and world.”—Poul Anderson

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File Size: 6563 KB
Print Length: 372 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1612423833
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Publisher: Phoenix Pick (November 14, 2017)
Publication Date: November 14, 2017
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Steven M. Cooper

Kindle version FULL OF TYPOS!! Very aggravating to read because of the typos.

February 19, 2018

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Friday The book is great! Loved reading it! HOWEVER, the Kindle version SUCKS old rotten ostrich eggs. It's FULL of typos, some of which are not difficult to figure out, but when you come across a word, "cormls," even in context it's damn hard to figure out what it is ... see Friday Kindle version, location 5520. I just bought the Kindle version, then read in the comments section about the typos. So I looked myself, and the comment was correct! My advice? Keep the hardcover or paperback(s) you have of Friday and read them. The Kindle version is aggravating because of the darn typos, which is from poor proofreading.

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Friday Revisited - 35 Years Later

December 29, 2017

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Heinlein is more prophetic today than he was 35 years ago, when Friday was published (1982). It was a favorite when first I read it, and still today having just completed reading it for a second time. Heinlein has no equal on the bookshelves, in ink or electrons. He is, especially in his later work, keen on creating a compelling insight into our common humanity in an uncommon future. Friday Jones, our heroine, is a genetically enhanced human, or artificial person, in the parlance of the book. She is kooky smart and as deadly as she is sexy. But hers is a coming of age story nevertheless. I personally like stories slight on plot and heavy on character interaction. This book delivers. We learn about Friday in the first person and about the future of our species as Friday navigates mega-corporations and intergalactic political duress all the while trying only to find a loving home. And for those new to Heinlein, be ready for some not-so-subtle commentary on morals and ethics.

Readers should note that the transition from ink to electrons was not without errors galore. I suspect this too is a condition we live with in 2017.

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One of Heinlein's best

December 26, 2016

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In my opinion, one of Heinlein's breast...wups! One of Heinlein's most fantastically convoluted books and one of his best portrayals of a female character in his oeuvre. Look out for a funny scientology reference...

I'd include a synopsis but I really don't see the point. Suffice it to say the story revolves around an artificial person (AP) named friday baldwin and in it you will encounter shadow governments, assassins, group families, a fractured United States, coups, religious skewering, cultural commentary and of course Heinlein's brand of rugged individualism.

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Great classic Heinlein

January 3, 2018

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Loved this book when I first read it years ago. As with other Heinlein novels, it's as much about culture, particularly social norms and prejudices, as it is vision of possible futures. Social commentary about politics and religion is embedded in the plot. I was intrigued by the exercise regarding how to identify a failing society; there is something to consider in relation to current (2018) politics and culture in the United States.

As a caution, readers may be offended by the attitude takwn by the novel toward sexuality (including the pregnancy of a 14 year old toward the end of the novel) and religion (particulsrly Catholicism).

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A good, well-rounded book but lack punch

December 27, 2017

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This was my first full novel by Heinlein - until now I had only read a few of his short stories. This is a good novel, but frankly I preferred his short stories more.

Having said that, it has interesting characters, an adequately paced and we'll told plot, enough of a whiff of mystery (and even some intrigue), and some respectable scifi-type philosophical questions thrown in there to make it worth a read on a long journey (which is what I did).

The only draw back I think is that the novel teases and flirts with some big issues but doesn't really take any bold turns with them and so never fully explores them I felt.

All in all, it s a good read, but nothing exceptional in the sci-fi landscape, which is what I'd have expected from the master that is Heinlein.

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The classic SF story about breaking the mental chains of slavery

June 26, 2018

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Friday is a controversial book that many complain about because they say it trivializes rape and so on. These critics clearly haven't read the book properly and totally misunderstand the character of the heroine. The key to understanding Friday is realizing that, although outwardly she seems to be competent and successful, inwardly she lacks the confidence to recognize that she is so. The genius of Heinlein is that he can allow the attentive reader to understand his heroines flaws and weaknesses even though the heroine is also the narrator.

You can read this book, as I first dis at age 12 or so, as an action adventure story and it is that, but you can read it in deeper layers too including the layer where you admire the master and his craftmanship

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Overall I really liked this book

April 9, 2018

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Somehow I missed reading this in junior high when all my friends were reading it. Overall I really liked this book. I was somewhat surprised that a significant portion of it takes place in a area that I'm familiar with, the border area of North Dakota, Minnesota and Manitoba. I've visited Winnipeg several times.

I liked the characters, I thought the plot line was fine, but the action ran at you time and time again like a blitzing linebacker. Friday was the only really well developed character, the rest of the characters were fairly disposable and transient. At times it was kinda preachy on the issues of libertarianism and, somewhat shockingly, on discrimination. Anyone who claims Heinlein is racist and/or discriminatory probably hasn't read him. Friday ended up having way more sex than I was expecting. She's oddly unemotional about the rape at the beginning of the book. I've heard it said it's because she doesn't regard herself as human. I'm not sure I buy into that. She's a little tentative about kissing a woman at first, but then seems to get quite into it. None of her relationships are what someone might consider 'conventional'.

My biggest complaint was the formatting of this copy. This was apparently a bad OCR, as there were numerous instances of misspellings and improper punctuation.

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