And, of course, there was.В But it was truly a Hell of an answer. Somewhere he felt, there had to be an answer to his question and to the question of why he was being persecuted. Without her, Heaven would be no paradise to him. Somehow, he had to bring her into a state of grace. In the ambience of its story line, in other words, Heinlein has shifted from his film Destination Moon (1950) to Louis SlobodkinвЂ™s The Spaceship Under the Apple Tree (1952). And Margrethe wasnвЂ™t even a Christian вЂ“ perversely, he believed in Odin and Ragnarok. After his defiant outburst persuades the aliens to delay EarthвЂ™s destruction, Kip is returned to Earth, and to his job as a soda jerk. Whatever the change, however, Alex found one constant вЂ“ all the signs pointed to Armageddon and the Day of Judgement. Alex found it impossible even to buy Margrethe the hot fudge sundae that he promised her. And after that, as change followed impossible change, things went from bad to worse. The next change took a double earthquake. Then there was the impossible iceberg that struck the ship and dumped Alex and Margrethe naked into the sea, to be rescued by a Royal Mexican Coast Guard Plane. Instead of being Alexander Hergensheimer, minister of a fundamentalist church, he was now supposed to be Alec Graham, carrying underworld money and in the middle of an affair with the charming stewardess, Margrethe вЂ“ the only good thing about the whole business. After negotiating the bed of hot coals with only a small blister, he suddenly found the world changed around him. Now called Alec Graham, he is in the middle of. It all began with that firewalking gig in Polynesia. After firewalking in Polynesia, fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer never saw the world the same.

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