The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
- 388
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Cat Who Walks Through Walls” begins as lively Heinlein adventure, and its second half and ending leave many readers dissatisfied. Figures from his other novels arrive, Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw among them, and for those readers the plot turns arbitrary. Some who come to it without knowing Heinlein feel they are missing something. The first half, by some accounts, stands with his best.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1985. Like many of his later novels, it features Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw as supporting characters.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.5 across 105 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 42% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.2 | 12 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 6.6 | 93 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Cat Who Walks Through Walls?
It has 388 pages — shorter than 63% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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