Jack Kirwan wrote in the National Review that the novel is «about two men and two women in a time machine safari through this and other universes. But describing The Number of the Beast thus is like saying Moby Dick is about a one-legged guy trying to catch a fish». He goes on to say that Heinlein celebrates the «competent person». http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_%28novel%29 Academia.stackexchange.com did have an interesting question a few weeks ago. The poster wrote about her negative experiences in a CS study program: Upset by male classmates openly comparing female students according to physical appearance I’m a female student studying computer science (CS). Some of the male CS students have given me a physical ranking compared to other female CS students, and it has me really upset, but I don’t know what to do about it. One of the students in particular enjoys telling me when he finds another girl in the vicinity more attractive than me. For example, a girl friend of mine told me I looked pretty today; and the one male student then jumped in and said I wasn’t as beautiful as the actress on the TV show we were watching. Another time, an attractive girl [...]
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