You Would Have Peace Then Prepare for War!
Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man. and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings.
But Farnham's small group had barely settled down to the back-breaking business of low-tech survival when they found that they were not alone after all. The same nuclear war that had catapulted Farnham two thousand years into the future had destroyed all civilization in the northern hemisphere. And the world had changed in more ways than one.
In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fit only to be slaves. After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham had no intention of being anybody's slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen Race reached throughout the world. Even if he managed to escape. where could he run to...
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Product ReviewWonderful read.
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Product ReviewHeinlein, even when he's not on his game, is still better than most authors.
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Product ReviewWhile I agree with some of the other commentators about the statement, Heinlein tries to make, I still believe this is one of his weaker works. The characters are just too one-dimensional and lack depth. Furthermore, apart from the alien-setting shift, the story does not surprise or astound the reader.
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Product ReviewThe first half of the book is about a small group of people struggling to servive in the wilderness the 2nd half abruptly picks them up and deposits them in a slave society. The characters just don't seem likeable or believable. The main character commits adultery with his daughter's school friend, but it is considered justified because his wife is a lush. The rest of the characters go downhill from there.
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Product ReviewMay have been good in it's time. Sexual dynamic between characters reveals that the author never had children. Middle aged protagonist (Heinlein?) is desired by all. Cardboard characters, uninteresting dialog, and a deus ex machina ending made for a tedious read. I have heard so many good things about Heinlein that I stuck it out, hoping it would get better. Disappointed.
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Product ReviewWhen this was written, there was no specific genre for this novel. 30 years later, the genre is all-too-well established: the "Mary Sue" YA novel written for 14 year old males.
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Product ReviewThis book makes you THINK - that automatically puts it beyond the pale for all-too-many readers today.
And that's a pity, for there is a warning here.
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