The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is a 1985 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that blends adventure, metafiction, and his interconnected "Future History" universe through the story of a writer drawn into a complex space-time conspiracy.

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instanceOf novel
science fiction novel
author Robert A. Heinlein
belongsToLiteraryMovement Golden Age-influenced American science fiction
centralTheme interconnected fictional universes
metafictional self-reference
multiverse
time travel
countryOfOrigin United States
features assassination plot
interdimensional travel
space-time conspiracy
firstEditionFormat hardcover
follows The Number of the Beast
genre adventure fiction
metafiction
science fiction
hasCharacter Hazel Stone
Jubal Harshaw
Lazarus Long
Pixel
hasCoverArtist Michael Whelan
hasISBN 0-399-13039-2
hasMainCharacter Colonel Colin Campbell
Gwen Novak
Richard Ames
hasMotif breaking the fourth wall
free will versus determinism
identity and role-playing
hasPageCount approximately 400
hasWorkingTitle The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
includedIn Heinlein late-period novels
isFollowedBy To Sail Beyond the Sunset
language English
mediaType print
narrativePerspective first-person
notableElement appearance of characters from other Heinlein works
blending of author and character identities
partOf Heinlein Future History
publicationYear 1985
publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons
setting multiple universes
space stations
the Moon
targetAudience adult readers
titleRefersTo a cat named Pixel

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Robert A. Heinlein notableWork The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Job: A Comedy of Justice followedBy The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls hasWorkingTitle The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
linked to: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls