{"product_id":"farnhams-freehold-9781439134436","title":"Farnham's Freehold","description":"\u003cb\u003eA science fiction classic, with an \u003cb\u003eall-new celebrity introduction\u003c\/b\u003e and afterword! A nuclear holocaust throws a brave and tough-minded family into a future where they are considered traitors and sub-humans and where they must fight tooth-and-claw to avoid becoming slaves to the benighted survivors of the war. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt'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 \u003ci\u003ehappen\u003c\/i\u003e in the first place! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout Robert A. Heinlein: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the great writer of such fiction in the world.\" - Stephen King. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the grand masters of science fiction.\" - \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439134436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Robert A. Heinlein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43271858159797,"sku":"9781439134436","price":11.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_40d67cca-0a49-46a0-8e88-7bf26f1d7d35.jpg?v=1699957772","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/farnhams-freehold-9781439134436","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}