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“‘What the hell goes on here?’ Wesley Ardmore demanded.”

Sixth Column by Robert Heinlein

January 2, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

An almost good book that gets more and more racist as we get into it. So this is the book that inspired the movies Red Dawn, but it’s incredibly more intelligent and inventive than either of those two movies could ever claim. The Pan-Asian army has taken over the United States and a group of scientists in a secretive lab have survived the war in secret and been left with their equipment, minds, bodies, and capabilities in tact. The only issue is that there is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Robert Heinlein, sixth column

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Robert Heinlein, sixth column ·
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