Friday
Friday is a secret
courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss." Operating from and over a near-future Earth, where chaos is the happy norm, she
finds herself on assignment at Boss's seemingly whimsical behest. From
New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of
America's disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.
Not since Valentine Michael Smith, hero of the bestselling Stranger
in a Strange Land, has Robert Heinlein created a more captivating
protagonist. Friday proves once again why Robert Heinlein's novels have
sold more than 50 million copies, have won countless awards, and have
earned him the title of Grand Master of Science Fiction.
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (1907–1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time. He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.
He was one of the first science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades. He, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.
Heinlein's Future History
Heinlein's Future History consists of 13 total books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
