Robert A. Heinlein
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| Title | : | All You Zombies |
| Author | : | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 13 pages |
| Published | : | March 1959 by The Heinlein Archives |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Short Stories. Time Travel. Fiction |
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Just as the limerick, “There once was a man from Nantucket –“ is the foulest yet most recognized of all, and just as the classic “Why did the chicken cross the road?” is the best joke, so is Robert A. Heinlein’s “All You Zombies-“ it is hands down the best time travel short story. Published in 1960, a reader and fan can see the early ideas for Time Enough for Love and I Will Fear No Evil. Was Heinlein a dirty old man? Yes, and in 1960, at the still young age of 53, he was just learning to fill out his garter and stockings. I love the time travel section of the science fiction / fantasy genre. I love the weird ones, the quizzical ones and the ones you just can’t figure out. I love the good (H.G. Wells classic The Time Machine), the bad (Piers Anthony’s Bearing An Hourglass) and the ugly (Heinlein’s own Time Enough for Love). Poul Anderson’s many adventures in time needs special mention. But for a short story to pack a lot into a small package, “All You Zombies-“ wins the prize.
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| Original Title: | All You Zombies ... |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.heinleinarchives.net/upload/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=222 |
| Literary Awards: | Balrog Award Nominee for Best Short Fiction (1980) |
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Ratings: 4.08 From 5014 Users | 509 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books All You Zombies
This story is like a neutron star: very small but with a weight beyond one's imagination. Terrific.A Paradox May Be Paradoctored!I guess it's futile trying to express the true magnitude of Heinlein's imagination structuring this looped paradoxical tale. **I'd watched the adaptation back in early 2014 when I had no big ideas about time travel, relativity (yeah, maybe a pretty dumb guy) and so was quite confusing but now it's totally different. It's awesome to find life so different in 3 years.
Time travel theory and its paradoxes always elude me and traveling across time (I don't want to go into the future, I can imagine how it will be like/ends, I'm fascinated by the past, I'm inquisitive) remains a curious idea.It all started with the Bar scene, a reluctant conversation between a man and the bartender, soon turns into an interesting one, then emotional and finally breaks into next level. First twist of the story, I was like Okay! I am catching up , my expectations were very high (I
Time travel can be disorienting.Very true. Some time ago I have watched the movie Predestination by Michael Spierig, based on the story written by Heinlein.The characters' structure is, apparently, simple. In a bar, traumatized male A meets male B. While talking, B reveals he was a female once, but her ovaries and uterus had been removed and the name has been changed. B is also traumatized because shed known a man ( lets call him B), and they had a child. never to be seen again, after birth.
This is a time paradox story. It's not specifically *about* gender, but Heinlein's deeply sexist assumptions about how gender affects personality and his assumptions about how even a future society's sexism will not change in any way, are fully on display here. (In the future, women don't become 'spacemen,' they are sent to be 'comfort women' for lonely spacemen who can't control their 'urges.' The possibility of a woman being a competent astronaut isn't even considered.) (view spoiler)[Unless,
I stumbled upon this short story by legendary Sci-Fi writer Robert A. Heinlein thanks to its movie adaptation (that came out recently and which I happened to watch just last week): Predestination, starring Ethan Hawke as the time-travelling Temporal Agent.I have always been fascinated by the Time-travel genre, but this was simply mind-fuck of the highest order! O.O
"Ever hear the expression 'A ruined Woman'?"Mmm, years ago, Doesn't mean much today.""I am as ruined as a woman can be; .... "So, much depth in these three lines , completely change the story!If you thought Inception was 'mindfuck' , I think this book/ short story gives it a tough competition.The movie adaptation of this book 'Predestination' is one of those movies which actually do justice to the original! The movie is an extended version of this book and is way better!But, the book is one of
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