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It tells the story of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, made up of black soldiers - some Northern freemen, some escaped slaves - and led by whites, including Robert Gould Shaw, the son of Boston abolitionists. Although it was widely believed at the time that blacks would not make good soldiers and would not submit to discipline under fire, the 54th figured in one of the bloodiest actions of the war, an uphill attack across muddy terrain against a Confederate fort in Charleston, S.C. The attack was almost suicidal, particularly given the battlefield strategies of the day, which involved disciplining troops to keep on marching into withering fire. The 54th suffered a bloodbath. But its members remained disciplined soldiers to the end, and their performance on that day - July 18, 1863 - encouraged the North to recruit other blacks to its ranks, 180,000 in all, and may have been decisive in turning the tide of the war.
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Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
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Cover artist | Irv Docktor |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy, science fiction |
Publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
Publication date | 1963 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and paperback) |
Glory Road is a science fantasy novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July – September 1963) and published in hardcover the same year. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1964.
Plot summary[edit]
Evelyn Cyril 'E.C.' Gordon (also known as 'Easy' and 'Flash'[1]) has been recently discharged from an unnamed war in Southeast Asia. He is pondering what to do with his future and considers spending a year traveling in France. He is presented with a dilemma: follow up on a possible winning entry in the Irish Sweepstakes or respond to a newspaper ad that asks 'Are you a coward?'. He settles on the latter, discovering it has been placed by Star,[2] a stunningly gorgeous woman he has previously met on Île du Levant. Star informs him that he is the one to embark on a perilous quest to retrieve the Egg of the Phoenix. When she asks what to call him, he wants to suggest Scarface, referring to the scar on his face, but she stops him as he is saying 'Oh, Scar..' and repeats this as 'Oscar', and thus gives him his new name.[1] Along with Rufo, her assistant, who appears to be a man in his fifties, they tread the 'Glory Road' in swashbuckling style, slaying dragons and other exotic creatures.
Shortly before the final Quest for the Egg itself, Oscar and Star marry. The team then proceeds to enter the tower in which the Egg has been hidden, navigating a maze of illusions and optical tricks. Oscar scouts ahead and encounters a fearsome foe who, though unnamed, is clearly the legendary 17th-century swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac, the final guardian of the Egg.[3] After a long fight, the party escapes with the Egg. When they arrive in the home universe of Star and Rufo, Rufo informs Oscar that Star is actually the Empress of many worlds—and Rufo's grandmother.
The Egg is a cybernetic device that contains the knowledge and experiences of most of her predecessors. Despite her youthful appearance, she is the mother of dozens of children (by egg donation) and has undergone special medical treatments that extend her life much longer than usual. She has Oscar unknowingly receive the same treatments.
Initially, Oscar enjoys his new-found prestige and luxurious life as the husband of the Empress of the Twenty Universes. However, as time goes on, he grows bored and feels out of place and useless. When he demands Star's professional judgment, she tells him that he must leave; her world has no place or need for a hero of his stature. It will be decades before she can complete the transfer of the knowledge held in the Egg, so he must go alone. He returns to Earth but has difficulty readjusting to his own world, despite having brought great wealth along with him. He begins to doubt his own sanity and whether the adventure even happened. The story ends as he is contacted by Rufo to set up another trip along the Glory Road.
Reception[edit]
Samuel R. Delany called the novel 'endlessly fascinating' and said that it 'maintains a delicacy, a bravura, and a joy'.[4] It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1964, losing to Way Station by Clifford D. Simak.[5][6]
References[edit]
- ^ abM. E. Cowan. 'Oscar Gordon'. A Heinlein Concordance. Heinlein Society. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
- ^M. E. Cowan. 'Star'. A Heinlein Concordance. Heinlein Society. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
- ^M. E. Cowan. 'Never-Born'. A Heinlein Concordance. Heinlein Society. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
- ^Samuel R. Delany. 'Glory Road'. Powell's Books. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
- ^'1964 Hugo Awards'. The Hugo Awards. Retrieved 2014-11-23.
- ^'1964 Award Winners & Nominees'. Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
External links[edit]
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- Glory Road title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Glory Road at Open Library
- Glory Road at Worlds Without End
- Glory Roadparts one, two, and three on the Internet Archive
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