Difference between revisions of "Life-Line"
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[[Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction|Alec Nevala-Lee]] describes it as "a story about a machine that can predict when a person will die" (p. 111). | [[Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction|Alec Nevala-Lee]] describes it as "a story about a machine that can predict when a person will die" (p. 111). | ||
| − | The Wikipedia entry gives bit more information, succinctly summarizing, "The protagonist, Professor Pinero, builds a machine that will predict how long a person will live. It does this by sending a signal along the world line of a person and detecting the echo from the far end. Professor Pinero's invention has a powerful impact on the life insurance industry, as well as on his own life."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line] The entry also notes collections not listed in the 1978 ''[[Contento Index]]'':"''The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein'' (1966), ''Expanded Universe'' (1980), and in a Baen edition of ''The Man Who Sold The Moon'' (1987)."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line#Writing_history] And mentions a TV series using the premise: ''Lifeline'' (2017 TV series).[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeline_(2017_TV_series)] | + | The Wikipedia entry gives bit more information, succinctly summarizing, "The protagonist, Professor Pinero, builds a machine that will predict how long a person will live. It does this by sending a signal along the world line of a person and detecting the echo from the far end. Professor Pinero's invention has a powerful impact on the life insurance industry, as well as on his own life."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line] The entry also notes collections not listed in the 1978 ''[[Contento Index]]'': "''The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein'' (1966), ''Expanded Universe'' (1980), and in a Baen edition of ''The Man Who Sold The Moon'' (1987)."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line#Writing_history] And mentions a TV series using the premise: ''Lifeline'' (2017 TV series).[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeline_(2017_TV_series)] |
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Latest revision as of 21:37, 8 September 2019
Heinlein, Robert A. "Life-Line." Astounding August 1939. Collected The Best of Robert Heinlein. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973.
Heinlein's first published story.
Alec Nevala-Lee describes it as "a story about a machine that can predict when a person will die" (p. 111).
The Wikipedia entry gives bit more information, succinctly summarizing, "The protagonist, Professor Pinero, builds a machine that will predict how long a person will live. It does this by sending a signal along the world line of a person and detecting the echo from the far end. Professor Pinero's invention has a powerful impact on the life insurance industry, as well as on his own life."[1] The entry also notes collections not listed in the 1978 Contento Index: "The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966), Expanded Universe (1980), and in a Baen edition of The Man Who Sold The Moon (1987)."[2] And mentions a TV series using the premise: Lifeline (2017 TV series).[3]
RDE, finishing, 8Sep19
