Editing Friday (novel) (section)

==Literary significance and reception==
The 1982 ''[[Library Journal]]'' review said that Heinlein "returns to an earlier style of brisk adventure mixed with [[polemic]] in the saga of special courier Friday Jones."<ref>{{cite journal|date=1982-05-15|title=Friday (Book)|journal=[[Library Journal]]|volume= 107|issue= 10|page=1013|issn=0363-0277}}</ref>

[[David Pringle|Dave Pringle]] reviewed ''Friday'' for ''[[Imagine (game magazine)|Imagine]]'' magazine, and stated that "I was prepared to like this novel—advance notices and reviews have all trumpeted the fact that it is Heinlein's best in many years—and indeed it moves well, but I found it left a curiously bad taste in my mouth."<ref name="Imagine3">{{cite journal | last = Pringle|first = Dave| author-link = David Pringle| title =Book Review | type = review | journal = [[Imagine (AD&D magazine)|Imagine]] | issue = 3| pages =36 | publisher = TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. |date=June 1983}}</ref>

[[John Clute]] in ''[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]'' says of it (and the following ''[[Job: A Comedy of Justice]]''): 
“Two late novels […] were hailed with some relief by Heinlein admirers despite not equalling the drive and clarity of his best work.”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/archives/heinlein_robert_a/|title=Entry : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

[[Charles Stross]] has stated that his 2008 novel ''[[Saturn's Children (Stross novel)|Saturn's Children]]'' is an homage to ''Friday''.<ref name="Interview">{{cite web|url=http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/interview-1.html#comment-57213 |title=Interview—Charlie's Diary |publisher=Antipope.org |date=August 27, 2010 |access-date=January 4, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Bookmarks">{{cite web |url=http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/book-review/saturns-children/charles-stross |title=''Saturn's Children'' by Charles Stross |work=[[Bookmarks (magazine)|Bookmarks]] |date=November 2008 |issue=37 |access-date=January 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106213129/http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/book-review/saturns-children/charles-stross |archive-date=January 6, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Audio Saturn">{{cite web |url=http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=17772 |title=Review of ''Saturn's Children'' by Charles Stross |website=SFFaudio.com  |first=Jesse |last=Willis |date=April 26, 2010 |access-date=January 6, 2015}}</ref>

[[Jo Walton]] wrote of ''Friday'' in 2009 as "The worst book I love": "It's a book about passing, about what makes you human. ... What's good about it now? The whole 'passing' bit. The cloning, the attitudes to cloning, the worry about jobs. The economy. It has an interesting future world [...] and as always with Heinlein it's immersive. [...] And it's a fun read, even if it's ultimately unsatisfying. What's wrong with it is that it doesn't have a plot. [...] Heinlein's ability to write a sentence that makes you want to read the next sentence remains unparalleled. But the book as a whole is almost like ''[[Dhalgren]]''. Every sentence and every paragraph and page and chapter lead on to the next, but it's just one thing after another, there's no real connection going on. It has no plot, it's a set of incidents that look as if they're going somewhere and don't ever resolve, just stop. [...] It sets things up that it never invokes, most notably Olympia and the connections back to the novella 'Gulf.'"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tor.com/2009/06/14/the-worst-book-i-love-robert-heinleins-friday/|title=The worst book I love: Robert Heinlein's Friday|date=14 June 2009}}</ref>

[[David Langford|Dave Langford]] reviewed ''Friday'' for ''[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]]'' #39, and stated that "''Friday'' has a good future background, where all-powerful 'corporate states' on the lines of IBM think nothing of nuking pockets of undue sales resistance; lots to annoy even the least committed feminist (being raped is fine, thinks heroine Friday—if only the guy doesn't have bad breath); and a plotline with all the forceful thrust of overcooked spaghetti."<ref name="WD39">{{cite magazine  | last =Langford | first =Dave | author-link =David Langford | title =Critical Mass  | magazine =[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]]  | issue =39  | pages =29  | publisher =[[Games Workshop]]  | date = March 1983  }}</ref>

===Awards and nominations===
''Friday'' received nominations for the following awards
* 1982 [[Nebula Award for Best Novel]]<ref name="WWE-1982"/>
* 1983 [[Hugo Award for Best Novel]]<ref name="WWE-1983"/>
* 1983 [[Locus Award]] for Science Fiction Novel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus1983.html#nvls|title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1983 Locus Awards|access-date=2008-05-15|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718123307/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus1983.html|archive-date=2012-07-18}}</ref>
* 1983 [[Prometheus Award]] for Best Novel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfs.org/novel_nominees.htm|title=Prometheus Award for Best Novel – Nominees|access-date=2008-05-15|archive-date=2008-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509170935/http://www.lfs.org/novel_nominees.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>