Richard Ames doesn’t like the fact that a new acquaintance was killed while dining at his table. Killed, why? and by whom? and why won’t that cat stay put? The eventual answers could lead Richard to Lazarus Long, the Time Corps, and more multiperson pantheistic solipsism.
My darling had planned a pianissimo approach: Live for a time on Tertius (a heavenly place), get me hooked on multiverse history and time travel theory, et cetera. Not crowd me about signing up, but depend on the fact that she and Gretchen and Ezra and others (Uncle Jock, e.g.) were in the Corps. . . until I asked to be allowed to be sworn in.

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  1. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners by Robert A. Heinlein (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, November 1985).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert A. Heinlein