Glory Road is a fantasy novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July - September 1963) and published in hardcover later the same year. Heinlein himself reported that the book only took several weeks and was a lot of fun to write; some of his other works, such as Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, required several years and were relatively difficult. E.C. "Easy" Gordon, the protagonist, has been recently discharged from a war in Southeast Asia (obviously the Vietnam War, though never explicitly identified). As he ponders what to do with his future, he sits in a cafe in France hoping to win the Irish Sweepstakes. Into his life walks a beautiful woman, Star, who convinces him to embark on a perilous quest to retrieve the Egg of the Phoenix. When she asks what to call him, while noticing a scar which he carries, he tells her "Oh, Scar." She repeats this as "Oscar," and thus gives him his new name. Along...This information was automatically generated from Freebase article Glory Road. You should replace/update it...