Glory Road in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Nov 02, 2007 John rated it it was amazing

Review of Glory Road -- This is science fiction from one of the early masters of the genre. I picked it up once when I had a coupon from Borders largely on the recommendation of a blogger I liked, who cites it as his favorite book of all time and, in fact, has taken many elements of his on-line persona from the book.

Our hero (literally) is E.C. "Scar" Gordon (aka "Easy," aka "Oscar"), an American unwinding on the French Riviera after his tour of duty in Vietnam. He's taken to reading the persona ...more

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Feb 24, 2014 William rated it really liked it

Shelves: action-adventure, fantasy, science-fiction, read-in-2014

I enjoyed this book though at times the writing style was a little hard to follow. This follows a "hero" recruited by the Empress of 20 universes to help retrieve a stolen object of great power. There is plenty of action and quite a bit of satirical humor. ...more

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Sep 05, 2007 Tracey rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, re-read, libraryread-idm

A fun romp if you can get past the casual sexism and of-its-time viewpoints. Just because a woman is hyper-competent and beautiful and sexy doesn't make her a strong female character. (Why do I think Joss Whedon is a huge Heinlein fan?)

The audiobook was read by Bronson Pinchot (yes, Balki Bartakamous) and he did a bang-up job, giving Rufo an outrageous French accent and Oscar a dry, Midwestern tone. His Star was also quite good, feminine without being falsetto. I may look to see what else he's ...more

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