Series isbncatalog id price pages format type cover artist verif. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Farnhams freehold february 1, 1994 edition open library. He served five years in the us navy and then attended graduate classes in mathematics and physics at ucla. Farnhams freehold farnhams freehold audiobook, by robert a.
Farnhams freehold king county library system overdrive. If i hadnt read and liked other books of his before reading farnhams freehold, i doubt i would ever have read another. Heinlein s 1964 novel farnhams freehold originally issued in serialized form in f. Going into the book, i only knew it was about a guy surviving a nuclear holocaust which is the reason i. Goodreads members who liked farnhams freehold also liked. This is the survivable nuclear war of the fifties and sixties, the war of the chrysalids as well as farnhams freehold. He was a naval intelligence veteran and became a science fiction writer. Perhaps books like this were a requirement when moving science fiction from a kids genre to an adult genre. Farnhams freehold seeking an office for the end of the. Farnhams freehold by robert a heinlein audiobook unabridged. Pohls worlds of if magazine over a three month span is both a classic of 1960s sciencefiction and sadly one of the most misunderstood and often misread heinlein novel. Hugh farnham was a practical, selfmade 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.
You might even say that rod is passing for whitenot to. Robert anson heinlein 19071988 was born in missouri. But this isnt really whats going on in this book at all. The setup for the story is a direct hit by a nuclear weapon, which sends into the future a fallout shelter containing farnham, his wife, son, daughter, daughter s friend, and domestic servant. Years ago, i read a book by one of my favorite authors, robert heinlein. Buy the audio book cd book farnhams freehold by robert a. Farnhams freehold a thermonuclear blast propels hugh farnham and his family 2,000 years into the future, where civilization has undergone dramatic changes. So, we need to make new experience as well as knowledge. A nuclear holocaust throws a brave and toughminded family into a future where they are considered traitors and subhumans and where they must fight toothandclaw to avoid becoming slaves to the benighted.
Pohl s world s of if magazine over a three month span is both a classic of 1960 s sciencefiction and sadly one of the most misunderstood and often misread heinlein novel. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a. Its not a cliff hanger, but i do feel i have some loose ends that need tied. Putnam later in 1964 farnhams freehold is a postapocalyptic tale. This is a novel about a monastery maintaining science through a dark age. The novel begins with a sequence of events inspired by the cuban missile crisis. Heinlein in the early sixties and published in 1964, farnhams freehold is one of his most genrebusting works. And i have always liked rahs philosophy and view of the world and of politics. Heinlein and tom weiner overview hugh farnham is a practical, selfmade man, and when he sees the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he builds a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. The story is told from the point of view of hugh farnham, whose dysfunctional family is abruptly faced with nuclear armageddon. The racist implications of farnhams freehold, with its society of cannibalistic black muslims ruling white slaves, are apparently more than even heinlein enthusiasts want to defend. Hugh farnham is a practical, selfmade man, and when he sees the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he builds a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for. Farnhams freehold by robert a heinlein audiobook unabridged full. Heinlein s 1964 novel farnham s freehold originally issued in serialized form in f.
I felt like i needed a long shower after reading this book. It means that it can to get your friend when you sense alone and beside that course make you smarter than ever. Robert anson heinlein july 7, 1907 may 8, 1988 was an american science fiction writer. The most famous science fiction novel written, stranger in a strange land is. What he hadnt expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter across two thousand years into a future both strange and. Read carefully, its not a racist work, but a work attacking racism. The complete version was published in novel form by g. Try to make the book farnhams freehold as your friend. Farnhams freehold by robert a heinlein audiobook unabridged full duration. After barely surviving a thermonuclear war, hugh farnham and a small group of survivors find themselves in a postapocalyptic world in which africans rule and whites are slaves. Heinlein, february 1, 1994, baen edition, mass market paperback in english. A science fiction classic, with an allnew celebrity introduction and afterword. The setup for the story is a direct hit by a nuclear weapon. Heinlein you would have peace then prepare for war.
Heinleins 1964 novel farnhams freehold originally issued in serialized form in f. Going into the book, i only knew it was about a guy surviving a nuclear holocaust which is the reason i got it. One of the things about being a book geek is that, sometimes, you enjoy getting together with other book geeks and, well, geeking out about books. However this isnt a survivalist book, or a mutant story although there are mutants. A serialised version, edited by frederik pohl, appeared in worlds of if magazine july, august, october 1964. After a variety of jobs, he began to write science fiction in 1939. A thermonuclear blast tears apart the fabric of time and hurls his shelter into a world with no sign of other human. Hugh farnham was a practical, selfmade man, and when he saw th. Heinlein wanted so much to not be racist, and this is the book that shows him trying so damned hard, and yet failing.
This book set in the early 1960s of the united states tells a tale of racial inequality and then of nuclear annihilation. A thermonuclear blast tears apart the fabric of time and hurls his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings. Find books like farnhams freehold from the worlds largest community of readers. But when the apocalypse comes, something happens that he did not expect. After finishing it, i threw it in the trash rather than giving it away to someone else.
Initially set in the time in which it was written, at the height of the cold war, in typical heinlein fashion, this book starts off with a bang as the main character, hugh farnham and his family were blasted 2000 years into the future by a. Farnhams freehold is a science fiction novel by american writer robert a. Farnhams freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by robert a. Heinlein, 9780671722067, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Hugh farnham is a practical, selfmade man, and when he sees the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he builds a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. In the new world order, being born african made one a lord of creation, while farnhams raceresponsible for the nuclear holocaustwas fit only for slavery.
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