Glory Road (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert A. Heinlein
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—heroic fantasy
- Time of Work: Approximately the 1960s
- Setting: Various locations on Earth and alien planets in the Twenty Universes
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1960’s, Other worlds, Kings, queens, or royalty, Heroes or heroism, Earth, Dragons, Swords
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
E. C. Gordon—also known as “Easy,” “Scar,” and “Oscar”—is a veteran from a military family who narrowly escaped death in combat in Southeast Asia. He now lives frugally on the French Riviera. Answering a personals advertisement in the newspaper, he finds himself faced with Rufo, a short, muscular raconteur, and Star, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. The advertisement promises great adventure, danger, and reward, and Oscar soon has all these things as he embarks with Star and Rufo, who is now his groom, on a series of adventures aimed at...
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