Despite her youthful appearance, she is the mother of dozens of children (by egg donation) and has undergone special medical treatments that extend her life much longer than usual. The Egg is a cybernetic device that contains the knowledge and experiences of most of her predecessors. When they arrive in the home universe of Star and Rufo, Rufo informs Oscar that Star is actually the Empress of many worlds-and Rufo's grandmother. After a long fight, the party escapes with the Egg. Oscar scouts ahead and encounters a fearsome foe who, though unnamed, is clearly the legendary 17th-century swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac, the final guardian of the Egg. The team then proceeds to enter the tower in which the Egg has been hidden, navigating a maze of illusions and optical tricks. Shortly before the final Quest for the Egg itself, Oscar and Star marry. Along with Rufo, her assistant, who appears to be a man in his fifties, they tread the 'Glory Road' in swashbuckling style, slaying dragons and other exotic creatures. When she asks what to call him, he wants to suggest Scarface, referring to the scar on his face, but she stops him as he is saying 'Oh, Scar.' and repeats this as 'Oscar', and thus gives him his new name. Star informs him that he is the one to embark on a perilous quest to retrieve the Egg of the Phoenix. He settles on the latter, discovering it has been placed by Star, a stunningly gorgeous woman he has previously met on Île du Levant.

He is presented with a dilemma: follow up on a possible winning entry in the Irish Sweepstakes or respond to a newspaper ad that asks 'Are you a coward?'. He is pondering what to do with his future and considers spending a year traveling in France. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1964.Įvelyn Cyril 'E.C.' Gordon (also known as 'Easy' and 'Flash' ) has been recently discharged from an unnamed war in Southeast Asia. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July – September 1963) and published in hardcover the same year. Glory Road is a science fantasy novel by American writer Robert A.

怒月 by Robert A. Heinlein