Farnhams Freehold, Robert A. Heinlein
Farnhams Freehold, Robert A. Heinlein
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Farnhams Freehold

Author: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

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. But when the apocalypse comes, something happens that he did not expect. A thermonuclear blast tears apart the fabric of time and hurls his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings. Farnham and his family have barely settled down to the backbreaking business of lowtech survival when they find that they are not alone after all. The same nuclear war that catapaulted Farnham two thousand years into the future has destroyed all civilization in the northern hemisphere, leaving Africans as the dominant surviving people. In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that nearly destroyed the world, are fit only to be slaves. After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham has no intention of being anyones slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen race reaches throughout the world. Even if he manages to escape, where can he run to?

About Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A Heinlein is considered one of the Big Three of classic science fiction (along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke). Heinlein is a seven-time Hugo Award recipient and was given the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. Heinlein’s juveniles alone have influenced generations of scientists, engineers and creators the world over (for instance, it was once estimated that everyone in the Apollo 11 mission control room had read and loved at least one Heinlein novel). His worldwide bestsellers include Have Space Suit — Will Travel, Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny

Bridge-playing libertarian type gets hit by nuclear weapon and ends up in future world where whites are enslaved by blacks. Well, you can see why I gave up playing bridge.......more

Goodreads review by Craig

Farnham's Freehold is one of Heinlein's most neglected novels from his middle period, not as well-received or remembered as his other 1960s books: Glory Road, the iconic pair of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, or his final juvenile, Podkayne of Mars. It's got some proble......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Like Glory Road, this is almost 2 books. The first one focuses on the Cold War, an atomic attack, & then a survival story. I liked it a lot. RAH actually managed some subtlety with his characters at times. They weren't all perfect & some of the imperfections were well used later in the book. For ins......more