The Pursuit of the Pankera

A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes

Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast, which was published in 1980. In the book Zeb, Deety, Hilda and Jake are ambushed by the alien “Black Hats” and barely escape with their lives on a specially configured vehicle (the Gay Deceiver) which can travel along various planes of existence, allowing them to visit parallel universes.

However, unknown to most fans, Heinlein had already written a “parallel” novel about the four characters and parallel universes in 1977. He effectively wrote two parallel novels about parallel universes. The novels …

eBook, 503 pages

English language

Published March 24, 2020 by CAEZIK SF & Fantasy.

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ASIN:
B082838YYY

Reviews

Une œuvre monumentale et magnifique…

Par quoi commencer, que dire d’intelligent qui n’ait pas déjà été dit ? Je vais donner quelques commentaires sur l’édition anglaise qui est celle que j’ai lue (donc sans l’artifice de la traduction), en version complète avec les annexes.

Il faut le lire, dans le texte. Pour revenir à l’essence du roman, auquel les séries et films (notamment la trilogie de Peter Jackson) ne rendent que très partiellement hommage.

Il fait suite au Hobbit (dont la lecture préalable n’est pas indispensable), un livre plutôt destiné aux enfants, en adoptant un ton résolument plus sérieux et sombre. On y verra l’influence du fascisme dans le monde, retranscrit dans un univers formidable et complet créé de toutes pièces par un professeur érudit d’Oxford, inspiré entre autres par les légendes nordiques.

Les personnages évoluent dans un monde vivant, avec tout un ensemble de mythes et légendes en toile de fond …

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In 1980 Heinlein published a novel called The Number of the Beast. It involved parallel universes, The World as Fiction, and dragged in Lazarus Long, as Heinlein seemed to do in most of his later books. While parts of it were fun, it was also confusing and disjointed in my opinion. I will read any Heinlein for the writing alone, so I am a fan (in fact, I was for a time the webmaster for The Heinlein Society), but I can see that some of his stuff is better than others. So when I heard there was an alternate version of this novel, I had to check it out. And The Pursuit of the Pankera keeps the same basic setting and has the same beginning as The Number of the Beast, but I think it is much better. The plot is a lot more cohesive and the novel just flows …