Farnham's Freehold
Robert A. Heinlein
New Age Library
Review<p>Farnham is a self-made man who sees nuclear war coming and who builds a shelter under his house; only to find it thrust into a strange universe when the bomb explodes. In this future world all civilization in the northern hemisphere has long been destroyed, and Farnham and his family are fit to be slaves under the new regime. Heinlein's story is as engrossing now as it was in its original form decades ago. -- <em>Midwest Book Review</em></p>Product Description<p>A Robert A. Heinlein classic reissued with an all new celebrity forward by noted Heinlein biographer Bill Patterson and afterword penned by three-time award-winner for fan writing and science fiction scholar John Hertz.</p><p>It’s a cross-time fight for freedom as a family retreats to a bomb shelter during a nuclear attack – only to emerge hundreds of years in the future, thrown forward in time by the blasts.  There lifeboat ethics rule as they struggle to survive...until they’re discovered by up-time humans, the survivors of the apocalypse.  These survivors are of African descent.  Down-time humans – in fact, all of the European-descended – are held guilty for the state into which the world has fallen and designated as automatic slaves.  The only escape is to find a way back down-time, to change events sufficiently to make absolute certain this nightmare future never get a chance to <em>happen</em> in the first place!</p><p>About Robert A. Heinlein:</p><p>"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the great writer of such fiction in the world." – Stephen King. </p><p>"One of the grand masters of science fiction." –  <em>Wall Street Journal</em></p>