Drawing a blank, and I don’t have any of my Heinlein books sitting around to check against, nor can I make the net tell me with any degree of certainty, so:
Can somebody conclusively verify or deny whether Lazarus Long’s AI ship Dora referred to him as “Boss”? Memory is telling me she did, but I have been wrong once or twice in the past.
Thanks!
Long’s ship’s name is Minerva. Dora was his wife/lover. Friday called her boss “Boss.” So I think that’s three separate Heinlein references confused into one there, Kit. :)
Yes, she did. Page 90 of the 1987 Ace paperback, she refers to him as Boss.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0441810764/ref=sib_rdr_prev2_ex90/002-0821898-7127265?%5Fencoding=UTF8&keywords=boss&p=S032&twc=27&checkSum=JXLgg4mTPzmCe4fnkJKVBV1MA7nTDMICNp5%2FNwn1w3Q%3D#reader-page
That may work as a link for you, not sure. But you can do a “Search in Book” on Amazon to find it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0441810764
*points to bryant’s response and says *pbpblbltlthtbt** Don’t mess with me, bub. :)
Thank you!
… ‘dorable Dora. Yah, she called him Boss.
Lazarus modelled the personality of his ship (the Dora) after the Dora he married on the colony planet. Minerva was actually Ira Weatheral’s computer’s AI — she duplicated her memories onto the Dora at some point, and that duplicate took the name Athena.
I admit to having to look that up. It’s probably best that I don’t reread those books; I’d hate to lose the fond misty memories.
See, I was going to say yes….
.. without any proof.
This just proves to me that the author just liked to reuse things over and over!
Besides, Stranger in a Strange Land soured me on Heinlein permanently. No, Farnham’s Freehold did. Creepy ass dude.
I would’ve accepted it without any proof, but the proof was nice. :)
*grins*
Yeah!
I’ve been told his earlier writings aren’t quite so dirty-old-man-wish-fulfillment, but I haven’t really suffered the urge to see if I like them better than his later writings. Geck. :P