Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger
Ernest Shackleton famously ran this ad in the newspaper to recruit men for his Endurance expedition: Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe...
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In Glory Road Robert Heinlein makes the case for his hero to carry a sword: A properly balanced sword is the most versatile weapon for close quarters ever devised. Pistols and guns are all offense, no...
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In Glory Road, our hero faces another skilled swordsman — “an ugly cocky little man with a merry grin and the biggest nose west of Durante” — who does something he had heard of, never seen: He...
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The MacGuffin in Glory Road is the Egg of the Phoenix, a cybernetic record of the experiences of two hundred and three “emperors” and “empresses,” most of whom “ruled” all the known universes — and...
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