{"product_id":"farnhams-freehold-book-robert-a-heinlein-9780425083796","title":"Farnhams Freehold","description":"A 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. \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\u003eNot only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the great writer of such fiction in the world. - Stephen King. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the grand masters of science fiction. - \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53163503321361,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53163503747345,"sku":"CIN0425083799G","price":5.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780425083796.jpg?v=1772126249","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/farnhams-freehold-book-robert-a-heinlein-9780425083796","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}