The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

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1. godshatterFeb 2024
   I enjoyed Heinlein's "And He Built a Crooked House" which is a short story involving tesseracts and 4th dimensional geometry. It was published in the short stories collection "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag".
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2. kylebenzleNov 2020
   I love SciFi so here are my top 5 around 10,000 words or less.

   1) The Machine Stops - Nothing beats it

   2) The Futurological Congress - Best short SciFi novel

   3) The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag - Freaking hilarious

   4) Perfect Day for Bananafish - Not sci fi but amazing!

   5) Blue Screen: How Peter Gustafson Defragmented the World - I wrote a short SciFi novel and my mom tells me its great :)

   [1] https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Stops-M-Forster/dp/1609420667

   [2] https://www.amazon.com/Futurological-Congress-Memoirs-Ijon-T...

   [3] https://www.amazon.com/Unpleasant-Profession-Jonathan-Hoag-e...

   [4] https://www.amazon.com/Nine-Stories-J-D-Salinger/dp/03167695...

   [5] https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Screen-Peter-Gustafson-Defragmen...

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3. doublewaffleJan 2019
   1. The Demon Under the Microscope... (T.Hager) 2. The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (Heinlein) 3. Masters of Doom... (D.Kushner) 4. Paycheck (P.Dick) 5. Dealers of Lightning (M.Hiltzik)
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4. GeekyBearJul 2021
   What part of that statement do you imagine that people should find offensive?

   That some people do want to be parents?

   Someone else mentioned The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, a detective story Heinlein wrote in 1942.

   The detective's wife is called out in the story as being the brains of the outfit, a very progressive notion in 1942.

   Exceptionally competent women have been a staple in Heinlein stories forever.

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