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really liked writing about rebellions, This must have been one of his earlier novel length attempts overyears before his better known "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", I suspect "If This Goes On" may have been written earlier than this one, This one is blatantly racist, The bad guys are Pan Asians, Lots of nasty comments about slanty eyes, yellow skin color, other sterotypes about Asians, etc, It was essential to the basic mechanism of the plot that the enemy be a different race from Americans, but not at all comfortable to read in.
The plot mechanism was that a new scientific discovery could distinguish between the races and that was the method of attacking the enemy,

This one had more interesting science fiction aspects than many of his other adult novels, For that reason alone it should be of interest to science fiction students, Nonetheless, I cannot recommend the book to most general readers, The characters are stereotypes, rather than well developed people except for two of the main characters, Virtually all the characters are male except for the token female saved to keep her from being shipped off to prison camp and constant rape never spelled out but heavily indicated.
I really enjoyed the science fiction aspects, which he developed in a different direction and reused in "Number of the Beast",

Otherwise there is not much to recommend this one, I recognized the racist elements when I first read it in my twenties on my honeymoon, actually, but even then also realized parts of it were really well written.
Heinlein was an excellent writer, and is justifiably considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction masters Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein, All three had a good grounding in science that often seems to be missing today,

This one is being tossed in the recycling bin, It getsbecause it held my interest but if it wasn't well written it would deserve only one star for the racist aspect of the story.
How can a few scientists defeat an invading horde By starting a magic religion, of course! Interesting commentary on both religion and race, One of Heinlein's early novels that I reread every year or so,

I love it, I love the intrigue and the unique way the hero solves military problems,

I'll definitely read it again, This was written by Heinlein, but the plot was a Campbell Jr, suggestion. This editor often did this with his 'stable' of authors, It seems odd that Heinlein would agree to participate in such a scheme, but this was early in his career and I suppose he took it as an useful exerciser he was a selftaught author after all.


Though a rather xenophobic story, it has some of RAH's flair and character but overall it is my least favourite of his works.
Asians have conquered North American and America's only hope is six survivors in a military research center in the Rocky Mountains, Their task is to organize American resistance after coming uo with a new weapon, Heinlein's Naval Academy training shows through, sitelinkBird Brian's review of Prayers for the Assassin reminded me of this steaming pile of crap, which I read when I was about.
So the slittyeyed yellow hordes have invaded the good ol' US and are crushing it under their bamboo heel, But luckily there are six allAmerican heroes left in this underground mountain research establishment, and they invent this incredible cool weapon based on superior Aryan science, and wow! even though they're up against four hundred million JapaneseChineseVietnamesewhatever Untermenschen they triumph because, well, that's their racial destiny, isn't it

I may be misremembering some details.
Heinlein wrote it inI would love to know more about his political opinions at the time, and how he thought WW II was going to play out.

Also titled "Sixth Column", this is one of Heinlein's most controversial novels

due to its racist underpinnings, Sure, he was writing in, but it reads like so much revenge fantasy: PanAsians invade America, so the heroes, hiding behind a fake religion, invent a ray that kills only PanAsians.
This, a whole bunch of racial stereotyping, and a friendly PanAsian who, as the trope goes, must die for his white friends, earn the novel my lowest rating.
Over thirty years after reading it, I still remember the queasy feeling, Recommended only if you're a Heinlein completionist,/en

Distopía postapocalíptica con unos USA invadidos por los Panasiáticos,

Pero aquí tenemos a Mr Heinlein que, con su habitual estilo independientemilitarista"puedocontodo "nos saca a unos rebeldes que tiran de ingenio e inventan una religión para jerarquizar la lucha contra el invasor.


No es el mejor Heinlein, pero se deja leer, Modernday America tends toward selfloathing, I often wonder if we could survive in the face of a persistent enemy with moral conviction, It is virtually impossible to find an intellectual that doesn't somewhere between apologize for America or just outright regard it as a villain inside or outside of the country.
The attitude increasingly permeates through the rest of our culture,

It is often one of the underlying things in Heinlein's work that I enjoy that both his personal values and the time in which he wrote were violently opposed to this trend.
Perhaps Sixth Column is the best instance of placing that attitude at center stage, In the novel, America has just been taken over by Pan Asians, Their victory is complete and they're strangling the country and running it as a nation of slaves, We open with our hero delivering orders to a small military organization one that is exploring applying advanced science to the application of war, The military has essentially ceased to exist, This particular installation is unknown to the invaders, They are to prosecute the war independently in a last ditch effort,

Our hero discovers that a breakthrough has been made, but coupled with a terrible accident, Most of the staff at the installation has died in the accident, Nobody knows exactly the nature of the breakthrough or what killed them all, Every line officer was among those who were killed, Though only a major himself, this leaves it to him to assume command of the couple dozen scientists remaining, fight an occupying major world power and to restore the United States.


There is never a moment's hesitation at whether it is the right thing to do, There is never a question of not doing it, The only question is how, Heinlein highlights bravery, fortitude in the face of insurmountable odds, patriotism and overall spirit sadly missing from most of our culture, He never fails to spin a good story, but this work is inspiring as well, It makes me sad tostar this Heinlein novel that was one of my very favorites when I wasor, But it didn't hold up well at all on rereading, First you have to handwave pervasive racial insults and insensitities American is conquered by an improbable "Oriental" nation that's a mix of Japanese and Chinese, then you have to handwave the magical scientific discovery that does freaking everything: kills people by race, cures cancer, builds huge temples, transmutes other elements into gold.
. . And you also have to handwave the unlikelihood of a group of six intrepid Americans taking on the occupying forces with almost no trouble at all.


My hands just got tired of all that waving,

Full review to come at sitelinkwww, fantasyliterature. com. Robert A. Heinlein contanos neste fascinante romance a história da conquista e ocupação da América por invasores asiáticos, Apenas seis homens em todo o país poderão transformar a derrota em vitória! Seis homens contra quatrocentos milhões!Num laboratóriofortaleza escondido nas montanhas rochosas, estes homens planeiam uma revolta que ultrapassará tudo quanto se possa imaginar! Trabalhando nas profundezas do solo, secretamente, constroem uma arma que fará estremecer o mundo.
Estão determinados a defender o seu país da aniquilação total, Este livro é tão empolgante como um romance de aventuras, tão fascinante como documentos governamentais secretos, tão lógico como uma experiência científica.
Heinlein confrontanos com a velha máxima de que, se a tecnologia for suficientemente avançada tornase para o comum dos mortais indistinguível da magia, e, é armados com essa magia que os nossos heróis conseguirão derrotar probabilidades impensáveis.
Além do mais, o mais fascinante do livro é a compreensão do autor dos meandros e comportamentos do pessoal integrado em exércitos, Apesar de muitas vezes pensarmos que um exército é um monte de pessoas desorganizadas, um exército eficaz é um modelo de organização que é seguido em todo o mundo por homens de armas mas também por empresas privadas que usam os seus princípios organizativos para orientar os seus negócios.
Como demonstração do que um exército deve ser, o livro é excelente, apesar de em certos aspectos ter uma atitude ingénua e juvenil, tão típica de Heinlein nos seus princípios de carreira.
I first read thisor so years ago and it smacked of racism to me even before I truly understood racism, Now, it's unpalatable and absurd, I did notice the parts Heinlein shoehorned in to make it not quite as bad like Finnys statements, or the inclusion of an Asian American character on the “good guy” side, but these did nothing to erase the premise of the book, which rests on white supremacist ideology.
The entire plot rests on “science that Asian culture cant match” nexttolast page and “the superiority of western culture” pagein my copy, If one can ignore all that, and the pseudoscience of the superweapons, the writing isnt bad the story is tight and fastpaced, I published a sitelinklonger review on my website, .