Farnham's Freehold
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...
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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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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780671722067 (0671722069)
ASIN: 671722069
Publish date: February 1st 1994
Publisher: Baen
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
The cover contains a great big spoiler all on it's own. It's an interesting novel. When compared to some of the other books in this genre it's interesting to see how different ideas have riffed off each other. Farnham is prepared for the coming nuclear war, he's not prepared for the time travel...
Well, that was odd.On the plus side, at least the overt racists in this books were vilified. On the negative side, the author drew heavily on ridiculous, lazy racial stereotypes that were just slightly less appalling than the views of his aforementioned villains.Still, I could forgive the unintentio...
I am taking a guess on the date I read it since I mentioned reading it in my journal, but I barely mention it. This is definitely not Heinlein's best by any shot. Hugh's character is extremely dislikable, and overall, it is not a good novel. There are other works that would give a better sampling of...
Read this long ago in my youth, the story stays with you..
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.