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Loading... Waldo & Magic, Inc.by Robert A. Heinlein
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.   JKCollins | Aug 24, 2008 |  These two Heinlein stories are well paired. Waldo is a science fiction classic, in which Heinlein imagines cybernetic devices capable of allowing remote manipulation of heavy loads. Waldo segues into Magic, Inc. by providing a "scientific" explanation of magic and the half-world through quantum theory and an alternate time-space continuum corresponding point for point with our own space. Magic, Inc. explores what the modern world could look like with the introduction of "commercial magic." Businesses of all kinds rely on it to make a profit... until the mysterious Magic, Inc. protection racket moves in. (  ) masyukun | May 16, 2007 | Robotic hands for manipulating things at a distance have actually come to be called Waldoes after the first of the stories in this book. Magic Inc. the second story in the book, is probably the most authentic treatment of myths about how magic was believed by some to work until Harry Potter. gbanville | Jan 13, 2007 | Great short novels (  ) rzornow | Sep 8, 2006 | Magic, Inc. is an entertaining piece of satire, and it's a shame most folks will miss it hidden away in this out-of-print book. (Waldo is unremarkable, but still worth a read.) (  ) szarka | Apr 6, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345330153, Mass Market Paperback)North Power-Air was in trouble. Their aircraft had begun to crash at an alarming rate, and no one could figure out what was going wrong. Desperate for an answer, they turned to Waldo, the crippled genius who lived in a zero-g home in orbit around Earth.But Waldo had little reason to want to help the rest of humanity -- until he learned that the solution to their problems also held the key to his own... Magic, Inc. Under the guise of an agency for magicians, Magic, Inc. was systematically squeezing out the small independent magicians. Then one businessman stood firm. With the help of an Oxford-educated African shaman and a little old lady adept at black magic, he went straight to the demons of Hell to resolve the problem -- once and for all! (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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