Waldo & Magic, Inc. (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

This book has two novellas written by Heinlein in 1950. In Waldo, he describes remote handling devices used in the "fantastic 1990's". Magic, Inc. is set in the 50's but "demons, witches, elemental spirits and magical spells are a part of the fast pace of American life." It's always fun to look a...

from LisaMaria_C

Waldo (1942) and Magic, Inc. (1940) are two (mostly) unrelated novellas that (mostly) wear their age well. The tenuous connection is that in both "magic is loose in the world" and there is talk of "laws" such as those of "sympathy," "contiguity" and "homeopathy" that rule magic, which is associat...

from masyukun

These two Heinlein stories are well paired. Waldo is a science fiction classic, in which Heinlein imagines cybernetic devices capable of allowing remote manipulation of heavy loads. Waldo segues into Magic, Inc. by providing a "scientific" explanation of magic and the half-world through quantum t...

from helver

Two short novellas. The first is Waldo, telling the story of a man beset by weakness from birth, who, by way of a mountain hex doctor figures out how to touch an alternate reality of limitless power. The second is a story about what happens when government attempts to regulate and control magic u...

from antao

(Original Review, 1980-08-21) My chief objection to models which suggest we will be much better off with satellites beaming down power to the ground comes in several pieces: 1. I have been told that solar flux in the bands used by solar cells is no more than twice as high in orbit as in, for inst...