They fight this fantastical hero, and though they do not defeat him, they flee with the Egg in hand. He finds Cyrano de Bergerac, a fabled swordsman from the 1600s, guarding the Egg. Near the end, Oscar volunteers to forge ahead to look for any threats. The tower is sprawling and labyrinthine, involving a series of traps and illusions that the questers overcome. At last, they reach the tower where the Egg is said to be hidden. As they approach the location of the Egg of the Phoenix, they say their wedding vows to each other. Along the way, they encounter a variety of dragons and other fantastical creatures, most hostile, which they dispatch with some cooperation. The trio sets off on a path called the Glory Road. Appearing older than Star, maybe in his late fifties, he is full of larger-than-life yarns whose truth is ambiguous. Star cuts him off and settles on the similar “Oscar.” Rufo, Star’s assistant, introduces himself. She asks for his hero’s name, and he replies “Scarface,” in reference to his facial disfigurement. Star explains that the ad is recruiting for an adventurer to go on a journey to recover the Egg of the Phoenix. He decides to answer a personals ad with the query, “Are you a coward?” He finds that Star is running the ad. This discovery puts him in a bind since he wants to live an eventful life even more than one of comfort. Not long after, he learns that he may have won the Irish Sweepstakes. Soon after his arrival on the Riviera, he meets a woman named Star on Île du Levant he considers her supernaturally beautiful. He decides to spend at least a year traveling France. Having been immersed in the war for what seems like a lifetime, he is unsure about what to make of his future. Gordon is discharged from combat in Southeast Asia. Heinlein ironizes the patterns of the epic by combining it with absurd and impossible events and relationships common to the fantasy and sci-fi genres.
He answers the ad and meets Rufo, a strange storyteller who asks him to join them on a quest for a lost artifact called the Egg, which contains a treasure trove of wisdom collected over the ages by the nobility of the Twenty Universes. In search of peace, Gordon moves to the French Riviera, where he discovers a personals ad from a beautiful woman named Star. Gordon, a military veteran from a long line of military family who nearly died fighting in Southeast Asia. First published as a serial in a 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, it quickly became a standalone novel and was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1964. Glory Road is a fantasy-science fiction novel by American writer Robert A.
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