The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
by Robert A. Heinlein · first published 1959
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SciFi - The novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942). Short stories are: " -- And He Built a Crooked House"; "They --"; "Our Fair City"; "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants"; and, "-- All You Zombies --".
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1. The Demon Under the Microscope... (T.Hager) 2. The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (Heinlein) 3. Masters of Doom... (D.Kushner) 4. Paycheck (P.Dick) 5. Dealers of Lightning (M.Hiltzik)
on “Ask HN: What were your top 5 reads of 2018?” ↗I love SciFi so here are my top 5 around 10,000 words or less. 1) The Machine Stops - Nothing beats it 2) The Futurological Congress - Best short SciFi novel 3) The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag - Freaking hilarious 4) Perfect Day for Bananafish - Not sci fi but amazing! 5) Blue Screen: How Peter Gustafson Defragmented the World - I wrote a short SciFi novel and my mom tells me its great :)…
on “Ask HN: Favorite Short Fiction?” ↗I enjoyed Heinlein's "And He Built a Crooked House" which is a short story involving tesseracts and 4th dimensional geometry. It was published in the short stories collection "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag".
on “Best Mathematical Science Fiction Books” ↗What part of that statement do you imagine that people should find offensive? That some people do want to be parents? Someone else mentioned The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, a detective story Heinlein wrote in 1942. The detective's wife is called out in the story as being the brains of the outfit, a very progressive notion in 1942. Exceptionally competent women have been…
on “In the Strange Land of Robert Heinlein (1984)” ↗