The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag by Robert A. Heinlein
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was pretty entertaining. There are some problems with it, though. The worst one is that it starts off like a mystery, by asking a question, and by the end of the book, that question isn’t answered. Other questions are answered, and the final questions are much grander than the first ones, but there’s something unsatisfying about solving the big cosmological mystery but not the little everyday mystery that led to it.
I did enjoy that different groups of supernaturally powerful mysterious beings have different cosmologies. Just because you can teleport doesn’t mean you know where the world came from and what it is.
All in all, this is trying to be a PKD short story. But it’s not quite good enough.
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