I will even say that by no means is this book a classic of any genre, but it is a book I have read several times over. Heinlein has some themes that are in most if not all of his books, this one being the importance of procreation, along with the search for immortality, free love, and the differences and relationship between emotional love and sexual experience. Sure, the moral comes late and doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the rest of the story. Many will say that this is not one of Heinlein’s best books. What Johann hadn’t counted on was his new body being that of his young, attractive and female secretary, Eunice. When money is nothing, attempting a very risky and very controversial brain transplant is nothing. Smith had grown quite old, and in keeping with the human condition wanted to find a way to extend his rapidly closing life. Have you ever wondered to yourself, “What would it be like to be a member of the opposite gender?” Well that’s not what Johann Smith was thinking when he sent out an advertisement rewarding one million dollars for a brain dead patient with his rare blood type.
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