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Assignment in Eternity
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<h2 id="reception">Reception</h2> <p><a href="/facts/Anthony_Boucher/XLoTvXvm">Boucher</a> and <a href="/facts/J._Francis_McComas/W8WQHuhA">McComas</a> were unenthusiastic about the collection, saying it contained "two lightweight and entertaining novelets and two pretty weak short novels."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> <a href="/facts/P._Schuyler_Miller/SeBxYXDB">P. Schuyler Miller</a> similarly found the stories "not up to the best in the "Future History" series or the author's recent teen-age books."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> <i><a href="/facts/The_New_York_Times/T9marWVX">The New York Times</a></i> reviewer Villiers Gerson reported the collection evidenced Heinlein's status as "one of the ablest craftsmen writing science fiction."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?25893"><i>Assignment in Eternity</i></a> title listing at the <a href="/facts/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database/3pvkKL6m">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59721W"><i>Assignment in Eternity</i></a> at <a href="/facts/Open_Library/A13NLNNh">Open Library</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Recommended Reading," F&SF, February 1954, p.94. <a href="/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction" target="_blank">/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, May 1954, p.150 <a href="/wiki/Astounding_Science_Fiction" target="_blank">/wiki/Astounding_Science_Fiction</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"The Spaceman's Realm", The New York Times Book Review, November 18, 1953, p.53 <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" target="_blank">/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>